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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Robert Booth UK technology editor

Artificial intelligence will cost jobs, admits Liz Kendall

Liz Kendall.
Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, says Labour ‘won’t leave people to struggle on their own’. Photograph: Alecsandra Raluca Drăgoi/DSIT

Increasing deployment of artificial intelligence will cause job losses, the UK technology secretary has warned, saying: “I want to level with the public. Some jobs will go.”

In a speech on government plans to handle the impact of AI on the British economy, Liz Kendall declined to say how many redundancies the technology might cause but said: “We know people are worried about graduate entry jobs in places like law and finance.”

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