The Green Room · 2026-04-14 · 37 min
Seven years ago, we were yet to experience a pandemic. Some of us were just discovering podcasts - and were yet to discover an air fryer. And Artificial Intelligence was, for many of us, something we only saw on the big screen. And in The Green Room's very first episode, we were asking 'What will be the last job on earth?' It was a year before GPT-3 changed the GenAI landscape, nearly four years before ChatGPT hit the mainstream and five years before regulation caught up and the world's first legal framework for AI would be passed. A lot has changed since then. But that first big question matters more than ever. AI has transformed our lives in ways that we couldn't have predicted. It's performing tasks, making decisions for us and helping us to create new things. And so, after years of experimenting with it, working with it, and investing in it, are we closer to understanding how AI will really impact the future of work? Some of us will go on to do jobs that don't yet exist, so how do we prepare for that? What skills do we need to learn now to prepare for the future - and what skills are essential to retain?
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