Amol Rajan

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3,997 appearances 23 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 16 Jul

Amol Rajan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 23 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 12.

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Radical · The Best of Radical with Amol Rajan · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

One is, obviously, we don't know which jobs. matched

You just can't know, right? matched

Because that would be the future. matched

And if you knew the future, you'd be even richer. matched

But in terms of the jobs that AI is likely to come for, the best guess we've had, based on evidence of what the jobs are at this point at the moment, are what you can think of as entry-level white-collar jobs. matched

That's what Dario Amadei, the boss of Anthropic, said on this very podcast. matched

I really want people to hear this clearly. matched

Which jobs do you sense are most vulnerable in the coming years? matched

But also, it's useful to think of this in the way that Mark Andreessen, who's a legendary Silicon Valley thinker and investor, thinks of this, founder of a firm called Andreessen Horowitz, where he says that the atomic unit of work is not the job. matched

The atomic unit of work is the task. matched

And the concept of bundles or bundling, which people in the news industry will be familiar with because we've just lived through this grand unbundling, it's quite useful here. matched

If your job is made up 80% of tasks which are repeatable cognitive endeavours, so processing information or solving some mathematical quandary, those tasks might be done more efficiently by an AI that doesn't take holidays and doesn't have sick leave. matched

But you might, in the remaining 20%, be able to... matched

you know, have a very successful job with that remaining 20%, which is more to do with human skills, intuition or dependent on trust or empathy, that kind of can take up the rest of your job. matched

So unbundling jobs into tasks that are repeatable cognitive endeavours and those which aren't is quite useful. matched

But in terms of the jobs that are going to be created, have we seen any evidence of that yet? matched

And we've tended to find jobs to go with them in the past. matched

I really strongly recommend everyone listening to this podcast... matched

looks online at a speech given by Dominic Cummings in 2014. matched

I can't remember if this was before or after David Cameron called him a career psychopath or where he was on that particular trajectory, but he gives this long speech about the civil service and how Whitehall is failing. matched

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