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The Story

Inside the AI workplace

The Story

The Times

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41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The AI revolution is upon us, with entry level jobs plunging by a third since the launch of ChatGPT. What does that mean for the future of work? We take a peek inside one office already living in the future.

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Guests:

  • Chris Stokel-Walker, Tech Journalist.
  • Jamie Hutton, Chief Technology Officer of Quantexa. 

Host: Luke Jones. 

Producer: Edith Rousselot.

Read more:When AI steals our jobs we create new ones

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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0:47.1

From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones.

0:57.4

Artificial intelligence is changing the way so many people study, design, write, research,

1:00.5

some are even getting relationship advice from chatbots.

1:05.6

But perhaps more than any of these, it is the workplace that will most be affected.

1:07.2

And jobs.

1:14.4

AI is already pushing up salaries at the top end of the tech sector, but what about entry-level jobs and graduate jobs?

1:17.4

The first rung on the ladder, doing tasks which maybe large language models could do instead

1:22.8

for free.

1:31.3

Yeah. for free. We will hear about one workplace very much living in the future.

1:36.7

The story today, inside the AI workplace.

1:50.4

My name is Chris Stokel Walker. I'm a technology journalist and author of How AI ate the World. There has been this growing drumbeat, Chris, of AI is coming for your job.

1:58.7

Tech jobs, graduate jobs, admin tasks. It's not just that this is in the

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