Can artificial intelligence grow safely?
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Economists expect that jobs growth in the US slowed again in September, and the recent sell-off in bonds might be starting to cool. Plus, artificial intelligence is cool and all, but can companies use this new tech in a way that isn’t toxic?
Mentioned in this podcast:
Tech companies adopt “constitutions” to keep AI systems safe
Who feels the pain from the bond sell-off?
US jobs growth expected to have slowed again in September
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:10.6 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:12.1 | Today is Friday, October 6th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.7 | We might be in for a slowdown in today's US Jobs report, and the bond market went, |
| 0:23.8 | hey wire, this week, plus popular AI bots like ChatGPT are starting to look and act more like |
| 0:31.7 | humans. But are we ready for that? We still don't know why and how they work. |
| 0:38.4 | We don't know why they produce the responses they do, and we actually find it quite difficult |
| 0:42.9 | to control them. I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:54.0 | Now let me be clear before I say this next thing. These are just estimates. But US Jobs |
| 0:59.8 | Growth is expected to have slowed in September. Bloomberg surveyed a bunch of economists. |
| 1:05.4 | They projected that today's data release would show US employers added 170,000 new jobs in |
| 1:11.7 | September. That's a step down from August's increase of 187,000. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| 1:19.2 | will release the actual figures at 8.30am. Central banks say that interest rates will have to |
| 1:31.2 | remain higher for longer to get inflation under control. But the idea of a lengthy period of |
| 1:37.9 | high interest rates is making investors nervous. Stock markets have tumbled and long-term bond yields |
| 1:44.4 | have soared over the past few weeks. I'm joined by the FT's market's editor, Katie Martin, |
| 1:49.0 | to make sense of all this. Hey, Katie. Hey, hey, Malkyrie. I'm doing all right. I have this pink |
| 1:54.8 | newspaper thing in front of me. I don't know if you can hear it. But on the front page, it says |
| 2:00.0 | bond sell-off deepens as high rates prospects, spook markets. Why is this happening even though |
| 2:09.3 | central banks are leveling off on interest rates and inflation seems to be leveling off? |
| 2:14.7 | Look, it's a good question, and it shouldn't be so difficult to answer, but it is in a way, |
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