Is Your Child Ready for the AI Era? | Daniel Susskind Lecture

Recorded at the RSA the day after the week that put extinction odds on the front page, and the host says so in the opening minute before deciding to steer away from it. What follows is the economist’s question instead: if machines can do most of the work, what should anyone prepare a child for.

Two moments reach past the book. Asked about the “>10%” figure circulating that week, Susskind rejects the form rather than the worry — attaching a number gives it a false precision, and yet the risk is not zero. And on the international cooperation everyone was proposing, he is blunt: a new global organisation is a distraction, because only two countries matter, and what happens depends on what the US and China decide to do.