Rebecca Choong Wilkins

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209 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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Business Daily · Taking Stock: Is your job safe from AI? · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

I think at this point in time, there's also a lot of pride that Chinese companies and businesses are also taking and actually making sure that lots of their models are open, right?

So typically, for example, once we saw US models being closed off for so-called national security reasons, we then would see announcements and press releases from Chinese models saying,

counterpart sort of saying, well, here, look, here's an open source model that we can use.

So I think there is that kind of a real drive to sort of integrate and adopt, but also to sort of push outwards and advertise that to overseas.

I think the trade is is the the kind of way to go.

But I was sort of heavily caveat that.

And just by coincidence, I had a locksmith come and help me.

I'd locked myself out of a safe this week.

And he was this incredibly qualified guy who'd spent most of his career in quite senior roles in biotech.

And he had taken this sort of later in life, he had two adult kids, he had retrained and become a locksmith.

And I was sort of asking about this, and I said, this is kind of extraordinary, right?

This is one of the only surely AI sort of proof topic, job areas that you could kind of transition and retrain and go into.

And he did sort of have some kind of eye-opening remarks, which is like, yes, but you have to consider if you're doing electrics, you're kind of constantly potentially at risk of electrocuting oneself.

And if you go into plumbing, you're essentially dealing with sewage.

So I just sort of get this hard dose of reality when I was kind of thinking, well, okay, if journalism all ends up being run by bots, where do I go?

So there is also that element.

And one cannot totally ever free yourself from the digital reality

kind of architecture and the digital context, right?

Like he was at the same time also grilling me.

Well, how did you find me?

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