16 Oct 2025

Tech: Data back-up + what AI 'workslop' does in the workplace

From Nine To Noon, 11:15 am on 16 October 2025
Data storage and cloud computing computer service business concept, showing a server room interior in a data centre.

They're a great place to store your data - unless they burn down of course.... Photo: 123rf

Tech commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to discuss how the South Korean government learned the hard way why back-ups to digital data are a good idea, following a fire at a major data centre that erased work files saved by some 750,000 civil servants. AI is increasingly being used in the workplace, but it's also generating sloppy work that then has to be cleaned up by colleagues. And chatbots that butter you up can also make you worse at conflict resolution.

Mark Pesce is a futurist, writer, educator and broadcaster. 

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