Forget your employees – how hard is your AI agent working?
The Times Tech Podcast
Will Morley
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A new trend is emerging in Silicon Valley – engineers are using more and more of AI agents to do their jobs. At some companies like Meta, AI usage is reportedly being linked to performance. But it’s also fuelling a growing anxiety, if AI can do your job better and faster, where does that leave you? Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott discuss the paranoia currently consuming Silicon Valley, what this really means for the future of work and whether we’re heading toward a genuine AI jobs crisis. Plus, they speak to CEO of Forterro, Dean Forbes, on his remarkable story from homelessness to leading a top private software firm in Europe.
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Executive Producer: Priyanka Deladia
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! Look at this. |
| 0:04.5 | What's happened? |
| 0:06.9 | Jury finds meta, Google, liable, and landmark social media addiction trial awards $3 million in damages. |
| 0:14.6 | You are joking. |
| 0:16.1 | This is, I will say, monumental, not trying to be too dramatic, but this is the first of these series of cases. |
| 0:24.0 | And the whole notion is, if you can establish a legal theory that these are designed to be |
| 0:29.5 | addictive, faulty products that hurt people, you are tobacco. |
| 0:34.1 | You have to pay for things as if you are tobacco company. So this could be the beginning |
| 0:40.2 | of a very huge change in social media. Astonishing. I mean, as we record this, it's almost |
| 0:47.5 | six o'clock in the evening on Wednesday, the 25th of March. It's actually really good timing, Danny, because of course, next week on the pod, |
| 0:57.7 | we've got the social media campaigner Baroness Kidron, who's really been leading the charge here |
| 1:03.9 | when it comes to things like the online safety bill, the implementation of that, what the government |
| 1:09.9 | needs to do about, things like the safety when |
| 1:12.8 | it comes to chatbots. So I'm sure she'll be, yeah. Yeah. No, Baroness Kidron is, |
| 1:19.2 | she'll be reading this news with interest. Yeah. This is the snowball starting to roll down the |
| 1:23.8 | mountain. Hello and welcome to the Times Tech podcast where every week we unpack how technology is |
| 1:31.9 | reshaping business culture and everyday life. |
| 1:34.8 | I am Danny Fortson covering all things tech out here in Silicon Valley. |
| 1:39.4 | And I'm Katie Prescott looking at technology here in the city of London. |
| 1:45.2 | And this week, a new question is continuing to emerge in the workplace, which is how much AI are you using? |
| 1:54.8 | And believe it or not, Danny, the answer is the more, the better. |
| 2:00.1 | Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. |
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