{"id":682079,"date":"2026-07-09T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682079\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:03:24","slug":"london-news-vast-majority-of-london-jobs-at-risk-in-looming-ai-bloodbath-new-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682079\/","title":{"rendered":"London news: Vast majority of London jobs \u2018at risk\u2019 in looming AI bloodbath, new report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The vast majority of London jobs are at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI), a new report has warned.<\/p>\n

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECEDt) has warned that three in four jobs in the capital are under threat from generative AI – more than any other city in the developed world.<\/p>\n

That includes major US hubs such as New York and San Francisco, as well as European capital such as Paris and Berlin.<\/p>\n

London has a high proportion of jobs in finance, professional services and creative industries – all fields which will be particularly affected by the rapid adoptions of AI.<\/p>\n

Generative AI are already being used in software development and customer service, with agents used to perform complex tasks in a business.<\/p>\n

The OECD classed three-quarters of London jobs as “highly-exposed” to AI – meaning more than half of their daily tasks could be automated away.<\/p>\n

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has warned that 3.4 million people in Britain could lose their jobs due to AI in the next 10 years.<\/p>\n

A further 30 per cent, or around 10.2 million people, could have their work complemented by AI within a decade, the OBR added.<\/p>\n

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OECD has found three-quarters of workers to be exposed to AI<\/p>\n

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The big four accountancy firms – KPMG, Deloitte, PwC and EY – have all said they are cutting junior employees because AI could complete work usually done by graduates.<\/p>\n

Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, warned earlier this year that AI could “usher in a new ear of mass unemployment”.<\/p>\n

“We need to wake up and make a choice: seize the potential of AI and use it as a superpower for positive transformation and creation, or surrender it and sit back and watch as it becomes a weapon of mass destruction of jobs,” he added.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Mayor said on Tuesday: “The Mayor believes that AI presents real opportunities \u2013 from driving economic growth to improving public services – but also brings with it new challenges, including the potential impact on London’s labour market.”<\/p>\n

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Sir Sadiq Khan has previously warned AI could ‘usher in a new ear of mass unemployment’<\/p>\n

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City Hall also created a London AI and Jobs Taskforce to examine how generative technologies had affected the capital.<\/p>\n

The report follows a warning from Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper that AI needs to be regulated to avoid a future earth-shattering display of power<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Comparing the emerging technology to nuclear power, she said international agreements on their regulation were made only after a display of “terrifying power”.<\/p>\n

“We cannot afford to wait for an AI equivalent of Hiroshima before we act,” she said, in an essay written for Chatham House.<\/p>\n

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Yvette Cooper warned of an AI Hiroshima as she stressed the importance of regulations on the new technology<\/p>\n

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The Foreign Secretary said Britons were increasingly facing global instability, from rising energy and food prices to migration pressures and the risk of cyber attacks.<\/p>\n

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance: the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; warned AI-powered cyber attacks could be just months away.<\/p>\n

Anthropic’s newest version of AI model Mythos was not released to the public over fears it could be used to exploit software vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

On Monday it was revealed the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) used Anthropic’s model to audit Government software, sources familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n

Mythos is being used to detect potential bugs and vulnerabilities in the software, the source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vast majority of London jobs are at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI), a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[35884,554,733,4308,1371,388,2222,50,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-across-the-uk","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-jobs","tag-london","tag-money","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682079","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=682079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}