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Martin Spring, Professor of Operations Management, Lancaster University

How AI and other technologies are already disrupting the workplace

BT's transition from copper wiring to fibre-optic cabling is now reaching its end. SatawatK / Shutterstock

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often cast as wreaking havoc and destroying jobs in reports about its growing use by companies. The recent coverage of telecom group BT’s plans to reduce its number of employees is a case in point.

However, while it is AI that is featured in the headlines, in this case, it is the shift from copper to optical fibre in the BT network that is the real story.

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