Drop-In: AI and the labour market – Should we fear a 'jobpocalypse'?

Concerns about AI’s impact on jobs are intensifying, with recent labour market data prompting debate over whether emerging signs of displacement reflect a genuine shift or simply cyclical noise. As the technology advances rapidly, a critical question is whether short-term movements will give way to more persistent, more fundamental changes to labour markets.

In this special briefing, senior economists examined what the latest data show and whether fears of widespread displacement – the “jobpocalypse” of recent headlines – are justified.