Sarah O'Connor

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261 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Jul

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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · LIVE: We Are Not Machines - with Sarah O'Connor · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

But actually, if there are still bottlenecks in other parts of that system, you might not really see the benefit of it.

You might just create lots and lots and lots of code, but then you still don't have enough people to review it, for example, or whatever it might be.

And so I think what a lot of companies are finding is that suddenly being able to do certain tasks within jobs faster

much more and much faster doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to see the same kind of productivity outcome filter through to the whole organization.

The other thing I would say is that we're still like in the very early stages of companies trying to figure out how to use these new tools effectively.

And what I think we might start to see is

companies kind of redesigning workflows around what the machines can and can't do.

I mean, in a way, that's exactly what Amazon has done, right?

I mean, it's completely changed its workflow in order to make the most of the machines that it has available to it at the moment and plugged humans in to do the bits that the machines can't do.

But I think it's still a really open question, you know, particularly with large language models.

I mean, the kind of the hallucination problem, I think is quite, could be quite existential for a lot of

sort of high risk professions.

You know, certainly, you know, we're not going to be using large language models at the FT to write our articles because we just can't possibly trust them not to hallucinate.

I mean, I hate to say it, but I'm... It's the translators.

I know I was going to say it's I think sort of creative industries more generally.

I mean, not not that I think that, you know, people will stop wanting to pay for human created stuff.

But I think that there are lots of people who work in.

you know, they're not necessarily originating the ideas, but they work in that long process between someone coming up with an idea and the thing being made, whether that's like working in special effects in Hollywood or music production or storyboarding in an advertising agency or whatever it might be, or copywriting.

I think there are lots and lots of jobs there which...

You know, are good jobs and people like them.

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