British Academy - Bryant McGill

# British Academy The **British Academy** is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Its research and policy work includes the societal distribution of technological change, labor-market transition, institutions and public reasoning. ## AI and work The Academy's joint evidence synthesis with the [[wiki/Royal Society|Royal Society]] found academic consensus that AI would substantially disrupt work through a mixture of job loss, job creation and changing occupational composition. The report emphasizes uncertainty, transitional harms and the distribution of benefits rather than endorsing either an end-of-work scenario or a no-change scenario. ## Corpus route [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] uses the synthesis to distinguish employment disruption from civilizational catastrophe. ## See Also [[wiki/Economic Transition|Economic Transition]], [[wiki/Automation|Automation]], [[wiki/Cognitive Labor|Cognitive Labor]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > “There is consensus in academic literature that AI will have a considerable disruptive effect on work, with some jobs being lost, others being created and others changing.” > **— the Royal Society and the British Academy**, *2018, The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Work* [[reminders/Economic Transition/AI Will Have a Considerable Disruptive Effect on Work by the Royal Society and the British Academy|AI Will Have a Considerable Disruptive Effect on Work by the Royal Society and the British Academy]]