Allison Pugh
@allison_pugh
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Care, Tech, Culture, Inequality. See The Last Human Job re the 'scaling up' of humane work @PrincetonUPress. @JohnsHopkins sociologist @AllisonPugh.bsky.social
Joined August 2014
We're in the NYTimes today! I'm so grateful to Jessica Grose for her piece on #TheLastHumanJob, spreading the word about the stratification of human contact! Human Interaction Is Now a Luxury Good
nytimes.com
We’re increasingly becoming a society in which very wealthy people get human care, like concierge medicine and private schools with tiny class sizes.
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Encore: Our Crisis Is Not Lonliness But Human Beings Becoming Invisible https://t.co/us5cglUgmr by @allison_pugh #LastHumanJob c @tristanharris
aeon.co
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
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Allison J. Pugh @allison_pugh @JohnsHopkins received the 2025 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award during #ASA2025 for her book The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World. @PrincetonUPress #ASA #sociology #ASA2025
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In support of humans for work that requires contextual intelligence https://t.co/NpcCEHzZRx
#lasthumanjob HT @allison_pugh
washingtonpost.com
New artificial intelligence-driven capabilities are expected to accelerate the shift from translation done by humans to machines.
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In this Q&A, sociologist, author, and #AAMC25 speaker @allison_pugh explores how efficiency pressures, standardization, and emerging technologies are threatening the human connection at the core of health care — and what we can do about it. Learn more.
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Sociologist Allison Pugh, PhD, sees efficiency pressures and tech reducing MDs’ “connective labor” with patients. She wants a movement to build relationships.
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It’s easy to assume that our push to be perfect is what leads to academic, athletic and professional success. This week, we revisit an episode with psychologist @thom_curran, who says perfectionism has a dark side. Then, sociologist @allison_pugh returns to the show to respond to
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Thx to @HiddenBrain for revisiting #TheLastHumanJob! Still getting used to the personal angle Shankar prefers: Preschool! Garlic! A false start in my dissertation! But I get how it helps the ideas come alive... Check it out! My part starts at 50:10 https://t.co/2ggbHmP6n7
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Perfectionism is everyone’s favorite flaw. It’s easy to assume that our push to be perfect is what leads to academic, athletic and professional success. But psychologist Thomas Curran says perfecti...
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Congratulations @allison_pugh of @JHUArtsSciences sociology on earning the @ASAnews Best Scholarly Book award!
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Inevitable response to LLM arms race (and yet another site of voluntary altruism ruined by the ChatGPT revolution). Fellow Profs: your students are doing this in papers already 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
asia.nikkei.com
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review
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Great essay by @allison_pugh in line with our argument that the loneliness crisis is actually a crisis of too many people without a feeling of mattering. Loneliness combined with a sense of invisibility & insignificance is exceptionally painful https://t.co/Ijt2Kf6nkN
aeon.co
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
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"...the kinds of stories people told me are available only through in-depth qualitative research...In an era in which AI is being proposed to do many human jobs – including in-depth interviewing – it takes a human to bear effective witness to humanity." Thank you.
We hear a lot about the loneliness crisis, but what if we were facing something else entirely? See my essay for Aeon on the Merchants of Loneliness and #TheLastHumanJob
https://t.co/btbqLWeDfJ
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We hear a lot about the loneliness crisis, but what if we were facing something else entirely? See my essay for Aeon on the Merchants of Loneliness and #TheLastHumanJob
https://t.co/btbqLWeDfJ
aeon.co
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
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A pretty near perfect description of teaching too
"Connective labor is not just a task, Pugh says, nor is it reducible to measurable ends. It is an inalienable part of humanity itself, without which the social fabric is left threadbare and thin." Thoughtful discussion of The Last Human Job & 3 other books on AI in Public Books!
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"Connective labor is not just a task, Pugh says, nor is it reducible to measurable ends. It is an inalienable part of humanity itself, without which the social fabric is left threadbare and thin." Thoughtful discussion of The Last Human Job & 3 other books on AI in Public Books!
AI promises optimization at scale. Here, we find the revival of human excess. Joint review of: Co-Intelligence by @emollick The Last Human Job by @allison_pugh AI Needs You by @verityharding The Importance of Being Educable by Leslie Valiant 🙏 @PublicBooks
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Honored & thrilled to have The Last Human Job win this award. Thanks to @ASAnews & those who read/gave early feedback. This award is dedicated to all who do connective labor, now under threat by data analytics & AI. Connecting is what makes us human! Let's preserve & protect it
Allison J. Pugh @allison_pugh @JohnsHopkins is the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for “The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World.” https://t.co/8Spu3tdrVX
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The Human Cost Of Talking To Machines: Can A Chatbot Really Care? via @forbes
https://t.co/Sd3Owbhy8Z HT @STurkle also follow @allison_pugh - read #LastHumanJob & #Superagency
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"the must-read book The Last Human Job" Replacing coaches, therapists — even business development people — with AI may seem efficient, but Pugh’s practical advice and compelling examples reveal the stakes for any organization."
bizjournals.com
Larry Gennari writes about putting people first when it comes to mergers, acquisitions and implementing AI: "This tumultuous economy will bring more M&A. Here’s hoping that buyers and sellers...
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The second commencement address to talk about connective labor? Check it out at 5:40! We all need a way to articulate for each other (and particularly graduating seniors) what humans contribute in an AI world #TheLastHumanJob
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As predicted by #TheLastHumanJob... You need people to talk to people "After claiming that its AI chatbot could do the work of 700 reps, Klarna is turning back to people to help w/ customer service work." Klarna changes its AI tune https://t.co/qB3bMcSb5Z via @cxdive
customerexperiencedive.com
Over a year after claiming that its AI chatbot could do the work of 700 representatives, Klarna is turning back to people to help with customer service work.
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