Former U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned that artificial intelligence is already dampening entry-level hiring, particularly in white-collar services, as companies learn to grow with fewer new workers. Now an adviser to Anthropic, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, Sunak said executives tell him “flat is the new up,” arguing that governments should phase out National Insurance and lean more on corporate taxes to capture AI-driven productivity gains. He called for stronger public oversight of advanced models, citing the U.K. AI Security Institute’s testing of Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos, and urged policies that encourage AI to augment, not replace, human labor. Sunak also touted surging tech investment in Britain and said the U.K. can be a leading productive user of AI as tax systems adjust to a smaller employment base.
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