Are We Heading For A Labour Market AI-pocalypse?

Festival of Economics brings FT work columnist Sarah O'Connor to Cinema 1 at the Watershed with a sharper version of the automation question: not that people are losing jobs to machines, but that work is becoming lonelier, less creative and less human. The session is built around her book We Are Not Machines, which reports from the front lines of technological change and also finds jobs made safer and better where workers took control of the new tools. She is in conversation with Heather Stewart, economics editor of the Guardian, and Sue Turner OBE, Professor in Practice in AI and Digital Technologies at the University of Bristol Business School and one of the Top 100 Women in AI Ethics. One hour. Paid ticket, with group (10+) and school discounts and no refunds. Why go: the best-sourced argument in Bristol this autumn about what AI does to work itself rather than to headcount. Best for people and operations leaders, policy people, and anyone putting AI into a team.