{"id":985620,"date":"2026-01-16T08:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985620"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:31:43","slug":"ai-risks-mass-unemployment-in-london-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/ai-risks-mass-unemployment-in-london-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"AI risks &#8216;mass unemployment&#8217; in London: Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London mayor Sadiq Khan on Thursday joined the chorus of warnings on the impact of artificial intelligence for jobs, saying that the UK capital risks &#8220;an era of mass unemployment&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The Labour mayor&#8217;s comments are to be included in a London speech late Thursday outlining the opportunities and risks posed by AI. <\/p>\n<p>With the UK capital home to a large number of finance, professional services and creative jobs, London is &#8220;at the sharpest edge of change&#8221;, Khan was to say according to excerpts of the speech sent to media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London mayor Sadiq Khan on Thursday joined the chorus of warnings on the impact of artificial intelligence for jobs, saying that the UK capital risks &#8220;an era of mass unemployment&#8221;. The Labour mayor&#8217;s comments are to be included in a London speech late Thursday outlining the opportunities and risks posed by AI. With the UK capital home to a large number of finance, professional services and creative jobs, London is &#8220;at the sharpest edge of change&#8221;, Khan was to say according to excerpts of the speech sent to media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}