Boss class: preparing for AI in the workplace

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  The Economist Hello, Alice Fullwood here, co-host of Money Talks,

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  our weekly podcast on markets, the economy, and business.

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  Solving fiendish maths problems, making complex medical diagnoses,

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  conjuring up new software in moments.

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  The feats of generative AI get more impressive by the day.

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  But anxiety about its social consequences is mounting too.

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  Kristalina Gorgieva, the head of the IMF, has warned of a job-crushing tsunami.

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  Sodemes Hasabis, boss of Google DeepMind,

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  A leading AI lab says he would support a slowing of innovation to allow society to adapt.

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  Jamie Dimon, high priest of American finance,

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  says governments should ban layoffs if it saves society.

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  The scene seems set for wrenching up evil.

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  The course of AI is uncertain, obviously.

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  Yet the latest series of boss class, our podcast on management,

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  shows that there are good reasons to think society has more scope to adapt than these luminaries suggest.

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  It takes time for a new technology to diffuse from the cutting edge to the office cubicle.

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  Firms and governments should use the breathing space to help those most at risk of being displaced.

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