FT Tech Tonic Podcast Transcripts
Financial Times · 261 episodes with transcripts
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FT Weekend Fest: How AI is really changing jobs
September 30, 2026
Murad Ahmed (0:01)
Hello, I'm Murad Ahmed, the FT's technology news editor. Tech Tonic will be back soon with new episodes. But in the meantime, here's one of my highlights from the recent FT Weekend Festival. A conversation between me and my FT colleague, Sarah O'Connor, about her new book. It's called We Are Not Machines, and it…
Hello, my name is Murad Ahmed. I'm the technology news editor for the Financial Times, and I'm joined by Sarah O'Connor. Sarah is going to absolutely hate this bit, but I have to introduce her properly.
Sarah O'Connor (2:08)
Yeah. As you say Murad and thank you for that introduction. The reason I wrote this book really is that I'm like a shoe leather reporter at heart. What I like to do is to get out of the office, to get away from the kind of the C-suite interviews and just go and talk to people about what's really happening in the…
And it was kind of frustrating to me for a couple of reasons. One is that these voices are all really coming from the top. They're coming from people often who actually have something to sell us, not that I think they're doing a brilliant job always on their PR, but they have a kind of vested interest and yet…
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