About this episode

The episode explores the mundane reality of AI in workplaces despite grand predictions about its impact on society.

It could end white-collar work. It could end poverty. It could end humanity. From AI's boosters and doomsters alike, bumptious predictions abound. But in workplaces, the technology, like so many before it, is becoming mundane. Are things really different this time? We take a closer look in this special edition of Tech 24.

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