{"id":395617,"date":"2026-01-28T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395617\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:34:07","slug":"artificial-intelligence-will-cost-jobs-admits-liz-kendall-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395617\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence will cost jobs, admits Liz Kendall | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Increasing deployment of artificial intelligence will cause job losses, the UK technology secretary has warned, saying: \u201cI want to level with the public. Some jobs will go.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a speech on government plans to handle the impact of AI on the British economy, Liz Kendall<\/a> declined to say how many redundancies the technology might cause but said: \u201cWe know people are worried about graduate entry jobs in places like law and finance.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cOthers will be created in their place\u201d.<\/p>\n

While some forecasts have suggested the fast-developing technology could create a net increase in employment, Kendall said: \u201cI\u2019m not complacent about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, said that without action to use AI<\/a> \u201cas a superpower for positive transformation and creation\u201d, it could become \u201ca weapon of mass destruction of jobs\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking to an audience of tech and business leaders at the Bloomberg headquarters in London, Kendall, the former work and pensions secretary, pledged Labour \u201cwon\u2019t leave people to struggle on their own\u201d.<\/p>\n

She announced plans to train up to 10 million British workers in the most basic AI skills by 2030 \u2013 including members of the cabinet \u2013 signalling a focus on helping workers adapt to the coming shifts in the labour markets, rather than resisting them.<\/p>\n

She said the government\u2019s goal was to \u201cmake Britain the fastest AI adoption country in the G7\u201d and said jobs will be created around the government\u2019s four AI growth zones.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are on the cusp of great change \u2013 an industrial revolution [taking place] in a decade,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have barely begun to see how this technology will transform all our lives \u2013 I believe for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rollout of online AI training for millions of workers \u2013 to involve Multiverse, a company founded by Euan Blair, plus a new programme to support women to move into entry level tech roles \u2013 would together be \u201cthe biggest single plan to upskill the nation since Harold Wilson\u2019s Open University\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

A new \u201cfuture of work unit\u201d is also being established in the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) with involvement from trades unions and business leaders.<\/p>\n

Ministers have faced criticism they are relying too heavily on US AI companies, whose models could soon be competing with British white collar workers for jobs. It was announced that a $1m (\u00a3750,000) donation from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta<\/a> was being spent on a government initiative to build AI systems for defence, national security and transport.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Anthropic, a US AI startup valued at $350bn, has been chosen to build and pilot a dedicated assistant tool for public services on gov.uk, starting with a model that will give jobseekers career advice. It is providing the services for free. The government also has a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Increasing deployment of artificial intelligence will cause job losses, the UK technology secretary has warned, saying: \u201cI want…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-395617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}