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Live News,14 Apr 2026,30 mins

Fresh AI concerns

Newsnight

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Rachel Reeves touches down in Washington DC tonight for a meeting of the International Monetary Fund, which has just given the UK the biggest downgrade in growth of all major economies. What does that mean for all of us? And it's 'a matter of time' before AI replaces almost every job, according to one of the technology's creators, Yoshua Bengio. He and former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Michael Gove talk about the new AI model prompting urgent questions for governments around the world. Are we prepared?

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