Chris Johns

These risks being fully delegated to automated systems that do not know compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and above all, the hope that people are able to change.

And these systems can therefore give rise to new forms of exclusion.

And on that new form of exclusion, Jim, did you know that it is increasingly common for some factory workers in India, for example, to be wearing smart glasses that now record their hand movements, whether they're packing stuff, assembling stuff, stitching,

Perhaps people doing these very manual but skilled jobs with their hands, with their bodies, thought that they were safe from AI.

But these smart glasses are recording every single one of their bodily movements with one objective.

And I bet you can guess what the objective ultimately is from these recordings of all these bodily movements.

robots yeah it's to build a robot that can replicate using this data that the smart glasses have created to replace the workers and there's a wonderful article email i'm not quite sure what the source of it from a bloomberg writer this morning who's quoting ashish narayan a factory worker in india who uses this wearable technology to capture his daily tasks

And this worker says, it feels like working in your own grave while you make your own coffin.

And I think that really resonates with exactly what Pope Leo had to say yesterday, that earlier quote.

I mean, the human condition is being degraded by what the four or five owners of all these media and tech companies.

And we're creating a monster or we have created a monster.

We're always watching out for signs that the adoption of AI is causing job losses.

It's all anecdotal at this stage, as we said many times, but here's another anecdote.

The boss of Next, which is a big retail company here in the UK, was on the airwaves this morning saying that entry-level jobs are collapsing and that his own company is getting twice the level of applications that they were getting quite recently for their entry-level jobs.

And he's very worried.

He doesn't know exactly what's causing it, whether it's a cyclical economic phenomena, just the economy in a bit of a downturn, the job market changing, being weak.

We've talked about that.

Or is it AI or is it all of the above plus some other factors?

But it's another sign that we've had several of these that where AI potentially is having its biggest impact so far is on entry-level jobs.

I had an email, we had an email actually,