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Woman's Hour: Listener Week: Generative AI, Female thatchers, Big noses, Communal living

Listener Week: Generative AI, Female thatchers, Big noses, Communal living

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Listener Week: Generative AI, Female thatchers, Big noses, Communal living

A listener asks if generative AI will make creative jobs obsolete

Listener Liane asks if generative AI will make creative jobs obsolete and threaten female-dominated industries

For Listener Week, you, our listeners, decide what we cover on the programme.

Listener Liane has tasked the programme with a deep dive into the impact of generative Artificial Intelligence on the workforce. She’s concerned that AI risks making humans “obsolete” and “has the capacity to replace millions of people's creative ideas, artwork, writing, music, their skills in language, invention and interpretation in seconds.”  We speak to Dame Diane Coyle, the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at Cambridge University, and Christina Colclough, founder of the Why Not Lab specialising in the futures of work.

Listener Deb emailed in to shine a light on the work of her daughter Daisy and her partner Anna, thatchers who have worked on rooves all over Devon. Our reporter Sarah Swadling caught up with them at work on a cottage near Okehampton.

How do you feel about your nose? Once considered a symbol of beauty and power in ancient Rome, having a slightly larger facial feature nowadays can have a different meaning for some. Do you embrace it in its natural form or have you ever thought about changing it? We speak to Radhika Sanghani, who started the #sideprofileselfie campaign; and Karolina who decided to have a rhinoplasty.

Listener Annette has often thought about living with her female friends in old age but she doesn’t know how to go about it. To answer her questions, we speak to architect Anne Thorne, who has recently built Cannock Mill CoHousing with 25 other households. And Mim Skinner, author of Living Together, a book about intentional communities in the UK and beyond. 

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Lucy Wai
Studio Manager: Gayl Gordan

00:00 OPENER	
02:17 AI AND AUTOMATION	
17.45 TRAIL
18:57 FEMALE THATCHERS 
32:00 BIG NOSES
45:51 COMMUNAL LIVING

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