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Radio 4,05 Feb 2026,8 mins

How big is the threat from AI to jobs?

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Is Elon Musk right that in the future no-one will need to work? Or will the ascent of AI be like the industrial revolution where some jobs become redundant but overall there are more jobs as whole new sectors open up? The World At One's Sarah Montague and PM presenter Evan Davis discusst the effect and the evidence that there is already a loss of jobs to Artificial Intelligence.

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