More than a third of workers expect parts of their job to vanish

Claim

More than a third of workers now worry AI will make some or all of their job duties obsolete, while Demis Hassabis declined the possibility of running Google because it would leave no time for serious thinking.

Reported metric: >33%

Reporting date: 2026-01-26 (not necessarily the event date)

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