Reid Hoffman, tech billionaire: AI job revolution
The Interview
BBC
4.3 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Amol Rajan speaks to tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, about why he thinks artificial intelligence could transform the future of work.
Reid Hoffman is best known for co-founding LinkedIn, the largest professional networking platform in the world, and revolutionising the world of work. He wants to do it again with a rapid adoption of AI in the workplace in a way he says is safe and ethical.
As one of the world’s richest men he also gives his thoughts on tech billionaires and his former relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.9 | Hello, I'm Amol Rajin, and this is the interview from the BBC World Service, |
| 0:10.8 | the best conversations coming out of the BBC, people shaping our world from all over the world. |
| 0:18.2 | I want to get freedom. I like that freedom. |
| 0:21.4 | A gender equal world would be a better world for men too. |
| 0:25.0 | We need this is fire. |
| 0:26.4 | We need healing. |
| 0:27.6 | We need trust. |
| 0:28.8 | These companies don't really, they don't care what governments do. |
| 0:31.9 | This is a war. |
| 0:33.0 | It's the first thing that we want is the war to end. |
| 0:37.2 | For this interview, I met tech billionaire Reid Hoffman. He's co-founder of the largest |
| 0:41.6 | professional network in the world, LinkedIn. He's also a huge investor in AI and a Democratic |
| 0:47.1 | party donor. You're going to hear about how he transformed the world of work through his social |
| 0:51.5 | network, LinkedIn, but also how he thinks the use of AI can transform the world of work again and lead to a new industrial revolution, akin |
| 1:00.6 | to the industrial revolution of the 19th century. |
| 1:03.6 | The change of what we're going to happen with AI does mean that there's going to be some |
| 1:08.3 | really difficult challenges and times ahead. |
| 1:12.0 | Why I'm optimist about this isn't because there isn't that difficulty about what we're navigating. |
| 1:17.6 | Of course, by the way, we're going into a compressed speed cycle of the industrial |
| 1:22.2 | revolution. |
| 1:23.2 | Like, that'll be challenging. |
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