Daniel Susskind

Economist + writer. Prof at Gresham. Also at Oxford, KCL, Stanford. Author of 'Growth' + 'A World Without Work', co-author of 'The Future of the Professions'.

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

Honoured and thrilled that GROWTH is one of @BarackObama's "Favourite Books of 2024". Thank you so much.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I always look forward to sharing my annual list of favorite books, movies, and music. Today I’ll start by sharing some of the books that have stuck with me long after I finished reading them.

Check them out this holiday season, preferably at an independent bookstore or library!

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

Encouraging news. Now is surely time to double-down on this promising innovation-led economic growth, not to ignore it and start up new, unfounded experiments with devolution instead. (There might be reasons for the latter, but they aren't growth.)
https://t.co/vpSjS8Uv3c

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

On Thursday's #PoliticsLive

Rosie Wrighting MP, Labour MP
Andy Preston, Conservative donor and former mayor of Middlesbrough
Daniel Susskind, economist and author

12:15pm BBC Two https://t.co/EP9j0PYmJN

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Those who are searching for work face the task of making hundreds of applications, only to be screened out by AI processors without ever having a human look over their CV. Those in work face the prospect of being replaced by AI altogether.

Economist @danielsusskind shares how to prepare the next generation for the transformed world of work 👇
https://t.co/IzaB2bO1HB

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

@journomadeleine @Telegraph thank you so much Madeleine, that is kind of you to say. And wonderful to reconnect after all this time.

[Madeleine Ross @journomadeleine]

For @Telegraph I had a lovely chat with an old econ tutor of mine (and all-round work expert) @danielsusskind about what AI could mean for jobs.

Can wholeheartedly recommend his new book, What Should My Children Do?

Read the interview here: https://t.co/MUIBDnd1NC

[Waterstones @Waterstones]

Is AI going to make us stupid?
Don't ask @grok.
Listen to author Daniel Susskind whose new book, What Should My Children Do?, examines what we should do to flourish in the age of AI. Find it here: https://t.co/hCiRVp0pe5

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

I am so thrilled to say that my new book, WHAT SHOULD MY CHILDREN DO? HOW TO FLOURISH IN THE AGE OF AI, is out TODAY in the UK.

In many ways, the last fifteen years have been building up to this launch. I have spent most of that time thinking and writing about the impact of technology, and particularly AI, on work and society.

That interest has taken me all over the world, to talk with a kaleidoscope of different people and organisations. Yet wherever I am, and whoever I am talking to, the question that I get asked the most -- and particularly since the arrival of generative AI -- is always the same: what should my children do?

In the few minutes I have in those chats, I try my best. But I always feel I have not done enough. The question is so profound, the answers so varied. I am frustrated because I had so much more to say; they are frustrated because the snippet of advice feels like a teaser.

So this book is the full answer, the one I would give if I had more time to give my full response, to draw on all the thinking and writing and conversations I have had over the last decade and a half.

It is also the book, as a parent, I would want to read. Having my own children (8, 5, and 2) has made the challenge far more personal, too -- it is clear that their future is going to look very different from my past.

But this book is more than just for parents. It is a practical and hopeful guide for all of us, from politicians to parents, business leaders to students, at all stages in our careers, to flourish in this strange and exciting new world we are entering.

So I am pleased the day is finally here. Do order below (or elsewhere!). And I look forward to hearing all your thoughts and reactions.

https://t.co/9hP2uZVFpX

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

@StefanFSchubert there is a clearly a thrill in the bold and alarming clarity of the statement. I have heard it many times, on and offline.

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

I struggle to believe this is real. The giddy sense of excitement on public display here — “earnestly”, “!”, “>10%” — is childish and entirely unbecoming of the challenge.

[Evan Hubinger @EvanHub]

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

[Richard Susskind @richardsusskind]

Out tomorrow, a book for our times, by @danielsusskind - WHAT SHOULD MY CHILDREN DO? HOW TO FLOURISH IN THE AGE OF AI - https://t.co/GdssvS2zk1

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

If my wonderful sister-in-law says it, it must be true.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

If you’re reading all the terror tales about AI labs and wondering - what will the world look like for our kids? What should they do? Then HOO BOY has my awesome brother-in-law @danielsusskind written a book for you.

And it’s out tomorrow.

https://t.co/qAeKKQ3vbE

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

@Joanna__Hardy sensational

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

Thrilled that my new book is the @guardian book of the day, and thank you to @susborne for such a generous review -- "His book is at once challenging, compelling and refreshingly optimistic." https://t.co/wXOJ6SAzQo

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

Great to be on @BBCr4today this morning, talking about my new book WHAT SHOULD MY CHILDREN DO? in the context of the new, dismal, global data on literacy and numeracy from the @OECD — in the age of AI, we have to get back to basics.

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

'How do we prepare the next generation to flourish with these new technologies?'

Teenagers' reading skills are falling around the world, with AI being blamed as one of the reasons for the slowdown.

Business professor Daniel Susskind says we need to get 'back to basics'.

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

Thrilled to have this personal essay in @guardian this week, drawing on ideas in my new book, WHAT SHOULD MY CHILDREN DO? It launches in a few days, on Sept 10.

[Chris Moran @chrismoranuk]

I am so pleased we have @danielsusskind writing for us today about LLMs, parenting and learning (and not just because he mentions my little project PlotLines). It’s essential we have informed, balanced dialogues about GenAI’s strengths and weaknesses https://t.co/utPPJqt1Kl

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

Sad to see that Wendell Berry has died. His poem, 'The Peace of Wild Things', is one of my favourites.

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

I find this very hard to reconcile with the feverish intellectual energy around AI at the moment — so many strange new questions bubbling up, so many new ideas in response (not all of them good).

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

"I just don’t see that there are a whole lot of new ideas out there." https://t.co/UGPHJtY3eH

[Josh Glancy @joshglancy]

Unlike with his Arday coverage, there has been no pressure on Aaron Bastani to apologise for amplifying this conspiracy theory that the Jews staged an antisemitic arson attack on their own ambulances

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

@CarissaVeliz so well deserved Carissa.

[Daniel Susskind @danielsusskind]

An obvious but important difficulty that is ignored re. discussions of British architecture is that tastes differ, often wildly. For instance, Goldfinger's 2 Willow Road is one of my favourite buildings -- full-stop. I have visited several times over the years to soak it in.

[Alex Webster @alexmaccaroon]

A selection of the utter shite that Erno Goldfinger also built in and around London.