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AI isn’t taking our jobs, it’s just giving us more work
Tim Duggan Work columnist October 23, 2025 — 6.55pm Advertisement
This week, a documentary aired in Britain about automation and the job market. Channel 4’s Will AI Take My Job? featured a television reporter walking the streets of London as she contemplated which jobs might be at risk in the near future.
Dressed smartly in a crisp white shirt and tailored jacket, she began: “Call centre workers, customer service agents. Maybe even TV presenters like me,” she paused, “because I’m not real.”
Channel4’s AI-generated presenter Aisha Gaban. Credit: AI generated. Dispatches, Channel 4
The twist of the show was that the very realistic host who had been taking the audience through the jou