AI is changing what work is worth

AI is changing what employers pay for. It is also changing who owns the tools, who makes the decisions, and who gets left explaining why their job disappeared.

I am Josh C. Simmons, usually Dr. J. I write about technology, creative work, and the institutions making decisions about both. My PhD at UC Irvine examined how an aesthetic can travel across media as tools change. That question now runs through software, music, and the argument over what human skill is worth.

Here you will find essays and commentary on AI and work, with room for the cultural questions underneath them. I care about what a tool actually does, whose interests a business decision serves, and what the person doing the work can do next.

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