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Hello, Rory here. I'm so pleased to hear that many of you have been enjoying the beginnings of our new series on artificial intelligence.

And what it's going to mean for the world in our lives.

It's a series I've been doing with Matt Clifford, the former government advisor on AI and the man who brought together the AI Safety Summit.

In this episode, episode two, we're going to look at what AI could mean for the future of economic life in the world,

what it's going to mean for jobs, what it's going to mean for companies, what's going to mean for unemployment, what it's going to mean for productivity.

We're going to look at the question of whether the whole thing is just a bubble, which is about a blow up in our face.

Here's a clip of episode two.

And if you enjoy it, please, to hear the full episode, go to the rest of politics.com and sign up and become a trip plus member.

So let's take a law firm, for example, right?

Probably true that if you're a 55-year-old partner in a law firm, you think, well,

AI is not a big threat to me because actually what I bring is judgment, contacts, relationships, human skills, 30 years of experience, right?

But if you're entry-level going into these things, the jobs you were

trained on, which were basic legal discovery, basic case law, gathering documentation, can

now be done by AI or will very soon be able to be done, much better than you. Same be

true in your management consultancy firm. The basic stuff, someone in McKinsey or something used to do in the first couple of years

can increasingly be done.

I mean, if the task is write a report on this company suggesting the seven things it

needs to do, right?

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