{"id":21595,"date":"2026-01-16T08:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/ai-will-transform-the-human-job-and-enhance-skills-says-science-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:37:42","slug":"ai-will-transform-the-human-job-and-enhance-skills-says-science-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/ai-will-transform-the-human-job-and-enhance-skills-says-science-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"AI will transform the \u2018human job\u2019 and enhance skills, says science minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Vallance says robots would take away \u2018repetitive\u2019 tasks, but Sadiq Khan warns AI will usher in \u2018new era of mass unemployment\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Advances in AI and robotics will transform human jobs, starting with roles in warehouses and factories, the UK science minister has said, as the government announced plans to reduce red tape for robot and defence tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Vallance said technological progress was creating a \u201cwhole new area\u201d for robots to work in. \u201cWhat\u2019s really changing now is the combination of AI and robotics. It is opening up a whole new area, particularly in the sorts of things like humanoid robotics. And that will increase productivity, it will change the human job,\u201d he told the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/16\/ai-will-transform-the-human-job-and-enhance-skills-says-science-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a7700fcd48ab8eba8a7a80e60aaf709f67037c17\/465_0_5800_4640\/master\/5800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9c1131954bfc418539f51043f92e5b21\" title=\"AI will transform the \u2018human job\u2019 and enhance skills, says science minister\" \/>Patrick Vallance says robots would take away \u2018repetitive\u2019 tasks, but Sadiq Khan warns AI will usher in \u2018new era of mass unemployment\u2019<br \/>\nAdvances in AI and robotics will transform human jobs, starting with roles in warehouses and factories, the UK science minister has said, as the government announced plans to reduce red tape for robot and defence tech companies.<br \/>\nPatrick Vallance said technological progress was creating a \u201cwhole new area\u201d for robots to work in. \u201cWhat\u2019s really changing now is the combination of AI and robotics. It is opening up a whole new area, particularly in the sorts of things like humanoid robotics. And that will increase productivity, it will change the human job,\u201d he told the Guardian. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Vallance says robots would take away \u2018repetitive\u2019 tasks, but Sadiq Khan warns AI will usher in \u2018new era of mass unemployment\u2019 Advances in AI and robotics will transform human jobs, starting with roles in warehouses and factories, the UK science minister has said, as the government announced plans to reduce red tape for robot &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/ai-will-transform-the-human-job-and-enhance-skills-says-science-minister\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI will transform the \u2018human job\u2019 and enhance skills, says science minister<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}