Is AI coming for our jobs? - Listener questions episode
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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The government are pursuing AI developments, but at what cost? Why aren't Labour rebels protesting about stealth taxes? And will Jeremy Corbyn join the Green Party?
Rachel Cunliffe is joined by Will Dunn and Andrew Marr to answer your questions.
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| 0:44.3 | It's Friday, and that means it's listener questions time on the New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:48.7 | I'm Rachel Kahneneff, and I'm here in the studio with Andrew Moore and Will Dunn. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello. |
| 0:49.6 | Hello. |
| 1:00.8 | This time we've got some great listener questions sent in on AI. Kirstearmes' huge but at times unruly Labour Party majority, council tax and of course Jeremy Corbyn. |
| 1:04.9 | So we're going to kick off with this question from Ryan in Tooting, who asks, |
| 1:11.2 | It seems AI is having a genuine effect on the jobs market, but the Labour government only seems to want to talk about the positives. Why aren't politicians talking about this very real threat? It seems like a |
| 1:16.7 | missed opportunity. Now, politicians generally prefer talking about the positives rather than the |
| 1:21.1 | negatives. But, Andrew, you've written about AI. This is such a great question. Can I answer |
| 1:25.9 | it in the course of about an hour? Because there's so much to say. First of all, he's absolutely right. There was a thing in government at the moment. And it's the influence of the Tony Blair Institute to which every problem can be solved by AI. And at the government away day at Chequers last weekend, it was AI, AI, AI AI and it's become the far too easy far |
| 1:47.4 | too glib go-to answer to everything there are problems in the NHS with output and efficiency |
| 1:54.1 | AI there are problems in our education system AI the government itself isn't working from |
| 1:59.3 | properly at the centre AI AI AI AI, AI. So that, |
| 2:03.5 | you know, it's become, I think the questioner is absolutely right. It's become too easy and too |
| 2:08.3 | glib. Meanwhile, AI is causing all sorts of really serious effects on our society and our economy. |
| 2:16.0 | Two things, I was writing this week about what Elon Musk has called the memetic battlefield, |
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