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The Future of Work

With AI on the rise, will we all work more flexibly, with more free time and income?

Pensions crises are forcing us to work longer, yet artificial intelligence and automation are pushing us out of jobs. How can employees adapt to the challenges, and how can companies help us to do so? Ryan Avent, senior editor and economics columnist at The Economist and author of "The Wealth of Humans: Work and its Absence in the Twenty-First Century" explains how we're in the midst of an upheaval akin to the Industrial Revolution.

Fiona Cannon, author of "The Agility Mindset" tells Manuela Saragosa that the solution lies with workers and companies collaborating to react more flexibly to the demands of work.

Last year during the US election campaign a research psychologist at the University of Oxford prompted some online fury by releasing a report which said that Donald Trump outscores Adolf Hitler on a test used to determine psychopathic traits. A closer read of Kevin Dutton's report, as he explains in an interview with this programme, reveals this may not be bad news for the President as most successful leaders in business and politics score highly.

(Picture: Women at work in the book-keeping room at the Bank of America, Los Angeles; Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Tue 7 Mar 2017 13:32GMT

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