The Jobs Revolution: Is AI Working for You? (Reid Hoffman)
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week, Amol is joined by the tech billionaire Reid Hoffman. Hoffman is best known for creating the largest professional network in the world, LinkedIn, and revolutionising the world of work. His radical idea is that he wants to do it again with a rapid adoption of AI in the workplace in a way that is safe and ethical. The question is, how?
In this episode we ask one of the world’s richest men why he thinks AI could change the workplace for better and for worse, whether billionaires should pay more tax, and his former relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
GET IN TOUCH * WhatsApp: 0330 123 9480 * Email: radical@bbc.co.uk Episodes of Radical with Amol Rajan are released every Monday. Amol Rajan presents the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 and hosts University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was the BBC’s media editor and the editor of The Independent newspaper. Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Rufus Gray and Oscar Pearson. Digital production was by Joe Wilkinson and Beth Pritchard. Technical production was by Stephen Bailey. The Senior News Editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.1 | Hello, radical listeners. It's Olly Doug Moore here. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm the executive digital editor of the new statesman, and I'm pleased to tell you that I'll be standing in for a mole while he's away. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm even more pleased to tell you about the amazing, radical guest that I'll be speaking to. |
| 0:20.6 | His name's Andy Cato, |
| 0:22.0 | and in a former life, he was one half of the spectacularly popular music duo Groove Armada. |
| 0:27.4 | But he gave it up to become a leader in something that I'm very interested in. Regenerative farming |
| 0:33.2 | and food security. Andy sold the rights to his Groove Armada songs to buy a farm, where he |
| 0:39.1 | began experimenting with regenerative no-till methods. And now he's calling on others to do the same. |
| 0:45.4 | As always, we'll be putting your radical questions to our guest, so please send us a message |
| 0:49.7 | your voice note on WhatsApp to 033-123-94800 or email Radical at BBC.co.uk. Now, on with the episode. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello, it's Amol here. Welcome to Radical conversations about the big global trends changing our world, the big forces, the big ideas that are really transforming our world and also offering you some radical ideas for the future. |
| 1:21.1 | Look, I love doing this show and I get very excited before every single episode. I'm not going to lie. I am particularly excited about this one because |
| 1:29.0 | we have got a monumental guest because it's someone who has completely transformed the world, |
| 1:34.5 | indeed the world of work especially, and he is a radical. Look, we have two kinds of guests |
| 1:39.0 | on this show. We have those who are really smart and influential and effective at identifying |
| 1:43.5 | radical changes, whether those are happening or those that are needed. And then you've got those who are really smart and influential and effective at identifying radical changes, |
| 1:45.0 | whether those are happening or those that are needed. And then you've got those who are incredibly |
| 1:49.0 | smart, effective and influential and actually making those changes happen. And this week's guest |
| 1:53.7 | has straddled both camps. I have been speaking to the titan of tech, that is, Reid Hoffman. Get ready because his biography is rather |
| 2:02.8 | long, but you deserve to hear the highlights. He is the co-founder of LinkedIn, which is the |
| 2:07.3 | largest professional network in the world with 1.3 billion users, maybe including you, and that |
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