The Futuremakers podcast

We live in ever-changing times, so information we can trust is more important than ever before, and it's not always where our academics agree that's most revealing, but where they disagree. Futuremakers is the fly on the wall to that debate. You may already have read a hundred articles about artificial intelligence and the future of society, but these longer conversations – featuring four of our academics at the cutting edge of research and at the forefront of their profession – explore each topic in detail, from the automation of jobs to the inherent bias of algorithms. In 2013 two Oxford academics published a paper titled'The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?' estimating that 47% of US jobs were at risk of automation. Since then, numerous studies have emerged, arriving at very different conclusions.