Is AI Making People Lose A Sense Of Achievement

There is a lot of discussion around the displacement in jobs due to AI-based automation and the resulting economic burden. But what about the jobs that are not lost completely, however, lose their meaning due to automation. Such events eventually lead to a diminishing sense of achievement among workers. A recent paper, published as a part of the research program Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies in the Netherlands argues that achievement is a key part of what makes work meaningful and that advances in AI and automation give rise to a number of ‘achievement gaps’ in the workplace. While previous automation made laborious jobs easier or irrelevant, AI-based automation has the potential to take the sense of achievement away from them. What is meaningful work & achiev