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Today in Focus

Is AI about to steal your job?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Should we believe the warning that AI is about to upend the jobs market? Chris Stokel-Walker reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:09.4

Today is the AI revolution about to take your job.

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1:02.1

So I recently met this guy who works as a translator.

1:06.1

And I can't say too much here, but lately, just to save time,

1:09.3

he's been employing the services of chat GPT.

1:18.2

He gets his stuff translated and sends it to his colleague who's a proofreader, who edits it and sends it back.

1:20.2

And he noticed in one of those emails, a strange question at the end.

1:25.5

Does this read more clearly now, or would you like further refinements?

1:31.0

And that's when he realized.

1:33.3

His job, his colleague's job, were already being partly done by AI.

1:41.6

Thing is, bosses have realized this too, that AI can be an incredible tool to make their workers more productive.

1:49.8

Or, it could just replace that worker.

1:56.5

In the past, the theory has gone that industrial revolutions like this one take away lots of jobs,

2:03.1

but they create more jobs than they destroy.

2:06.7

But over the past few days, the CEO of one major AI company has been doing the rounds with a warning.

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