Question follow-through · 65034
Artificial Intelligence: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of jobs that could be lost as a result of artificial intelligence.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 4 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of jobs that could be lost as a result of artificial intelligence.
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2025
Answer published
Government is working to harness the benefits that AI can bring in terms of economic growth, rising living standards, and improved worker wellbeing; while mitigating the risks. Government is planning for a range of plausible outcomes and closely monitorin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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