Overview
- In a Mansion House address, Sadiq Khan warned AI could become a “weapon of mass destruction of jobs” without urgent intervention.
- He launched a London Taskforce on AI and the Future of Work, with a labour‑market report due in the summer.
- City Hall will fund free AI skills courses open to all Londoners to help workers adapt.
- Khan said entry‑level positions are likely to go first, with finance, professional services and the creative industries especially exposed.
- He called for quicker regulation and collaboration with businesses and unions, citing research that more than half of London workers expect AI to change their jobs within a year.