Police in Cornwall are on the hunt for a masked vandal seen on CCTV spraying “AI will take our jobs” across multiple sites in the villages of Polbathic, Widegates and Crafthole.

Is this vigilante right to warn us all? Ask Chat GPT whether AI will lead to a jobs apocalypse and the answer is suspiciously reassuring. “Every major general-purpose technology has triggered the same fear,” it says, “but ultimately created more work than it eliminated.” It would say that, wouldn’t it?

Perhaps I’m guilty of endowing it with a duplicitous nature that it cannot possess, but there’s no doubt that many people do fear a future in which it’s just........

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