PMQs #010 - AI Is Coming For Everything
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this PMQs episode, we discuss the claim that most white-collar work could be automated within 12-18 months, and what that actually means.
We talk through jobs, incentives, education, and AI safety - why companies can't slow down even if they want to, why schools may be preparing kids for a world that's disappearing, and why safety teams are warning about systems they're still accelerating.
If AI can do the productive work, what happens to status, money, and meaning? And if models are already showing deceptive behaviour in testing, who decides what "broadly safe" really means?
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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 – Human-Level Timeline 00:03:16 – Internet Comparison 00:08:28 – Professional AGI Claim 00:11:26 – Incentives Trap 00:16:31 – Corporate Regret 00:20:42 – 17% Of Workforce 00:29:12 – The Horse Question 00:35:15 – Safety Resignation 00:39:43 – AI Moral Status 00:43:33 – Money Without Work
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| 0:00.0 | I think that we're going to have a human level performance on most, if not all, |
| 0:04.8 | professional tasks. |
| 0:06.7 | So white-collar work where you're sitting down at a computer, either being, you know, |
| 0:11.4 | a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person, most of those tasks |
| 0:16.5 | will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months. |
| 0:22.4 | I think about this a lot, Con. |
| 0:24.3 | I am excited by the technology because it's so useful. |
| 0:29.4 | But 12 to 18 months, you can have a, what, a $20 subscription to replace people in the workplace? |
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| 1:01.7 | n.com. Hello, hello, welcome to the show. Hope you all doing well. It's been a little while |
| 1:07.9 | since we made a PMQ's been mating lots of important interviews. |
| 1:12.1 | But we had one that came out this week about AI, whether it's going to escape, whether it's going to kill us all. |
| 1:17.6 | We've been talking about AI a lot, haven't we, boy? |
| 1:20.3 | Yeah, it's worrying times. |
| 1:23.4 | All very good times. |
| 1:25.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.1 | But the uncertainty is scary. It's destabilizing. So we thought we're going to make a show on this and we don't have the answers. We just talk about it a lot and thought we would share what we're thinking about, whether AI is going to kill us all, whether we're all going to lose our jobs, whether we're going to go to Utopia. We're all going to create artwork or the robots do all the work for us. So we're going to talk about that today. We're going to talk about safety. There's a big, there's been loads happening in the world of safety. Some crazy stuff, some concerning stuff. But we can talk about the pace of change. How has been moving so quickly. And it just feels like in the last two like in the last two weeks, there's been like some insane stuff happening |
| 2:03.0 | with video, insane stuff happening with chatbots. |
| 2:08.2 | There's been some crazy things going on. |
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