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When the Rules Change: AI, Work, and Who Captures the Benefit
Wednesday 6 May 2026·75 minutes·Presented by Charlie Garrison
Unemployment is stable. Entry-level jobs are quietly disappearing. And beneath both of those facts sits a question our economic system has never had to answer before.
What we covered
- 📊 What the data shows: entry-level job hollowing and why unemployment figures don’t capture it
- ⚙️ Automation vs augmentation: why how AI is deployed matters more than whether it is
- 🧱 The two-tier economy: skills that complement AI — and their limits
- 🎰 The capitalism question: who captures the benefit when human labour becomes optional?
- 🌱 Two possible futures: what the optimistic path actually requires
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