Merryn Somerset Webb

I know there is one path to take, which is simply to say I'm not getting involved in this and I'm going into a craft, I'm going into roofing or stone carving.

or we have a huge shortage, by the way, of craftsmen in the UK.

So this is a fantastic thing if people decide to make their choice in that direction as well.

But nonetheless, that's not going to absorb a million kids a year.

What else?

How do you look at your path as a young person?

And at the company level, so that's individuals, but what does a company need to do?

I think we've slightly come up with the answer to that.

They need to keep paying up to make sure that their employees have a base of knowledge and skill.

Beyond that?

And what about investment implications?

How nervous does it make you?

Because I think people listening to this conversation will come out of the other end thinking to themselves that it's almost a given that the majority of people will use AI passively in the dangerous way that you have suggested.

That this will be the default.

This is what most people will do.

And there will be a small group of people.

who will not, and who will engage with it in the other way that you suggested, using it as an assistance, a learning tool with which they engage but still think for themselves.

So it rather sounds as though that leads us into a world of very unequal outcomes, even more so than the world we live in now.

Yeah, yeah.

Final thought.