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EPISODE · Feb 3, 2018 · 26 MIN

Skills for the Future

from In the Balance · host BBC World Service

Fatalists might argue work has no future, that soon pretty much everything will be automated and that the robots will take over. Others say the rise of artificial intelligence and robotics just means the kinds of jobs we'll all be doing is changing. So what sorts of skills will prepare us - and our children - for the future of work, and for jobs which we might not even have dreamt of yet? Join Manuela Saragosa and guests to discuss what we should be studying now. Contributors: Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, co-founder of Stemettes Susan Lund, partner with the McKinsey Global Institute Scott Hartley, venture capitalist, author of The Fuzzy and The Techie Lord Karan Bilimoria Chairman and Founder of Cobra Beer and Independent Crossbench Peer in the House of LordsPicture: iPal robots sing for attendees at the AvatarMind booth during CES 2018 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 10, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Credit: Getty Images)

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