Merryn Somerset Webb

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Merryn Talks Money · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age? · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

not what we've got now.

So if you are a young person today, let's say you're coming up to choosing A-levels,

example.

What do you choose?

You say we can't predict the future.

I absolutely agree with you.

We have no idea what's coming next.

And it's very hard to tell what very specific skills

be useful.

It's hard to say, well, this is future-proofed and this isn't.

Everyone keeps telling young people to go out and learn a skill, be a plumber, be an electrician,

baker, whatever.

But we don't even know that realistically.

So if you were sitting there

You're 15 and a half, 16,

looking at your A-levels, you've got to choose three subjects.

What are they going to be?

Let's go back to A-levels.

mean that when you look at A-levels, you are particularly focused, again, on anything that teaches you critical thinking as opposed to rote learning?

So any critical thinking, and maybe even linguistics, because your relationship with your agents is a linguistic one, right?

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