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AI’s workplace revolution is here – and anxiety is rising with it

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, The Guardian’s US tech editor, writing to you while cheering on Team USA in the Winter Olympics. Introducing our new series about AI and the future of work Throughout 2026, The Guardian will publish a series of stories about how artificial intelligence is affecting modern labor. We’re calling it Reworked: A series about what’s at stake as AI disrupts our jobs. Our first story published this morning. Artificial intelligence, in particular the increasi

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AI’s workplace revolution is here – and anxiety is rising with it
The quick read

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, The Guardian’s US tech editor, writing to you while cheering on Team USA in the Winter Olympics.

Introducing our new series about AI and the future of work Throughout 2026, The Guardian will publish a series of stories about how artificial intelligence is affecting modern labor. We’re calling it Reworked: A series about what’s at stake as AI disrupts our jobs.

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  • Hello, and welcome to TechScape.
  • I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, The Guardian’s US tech editor, writing to you while cheering on Team USA in the Winter Olympics.
  • Introducing our new series about AI and the future of work Throughout 2026, The Guardian will publish a series of stories about how artificial intelligence is affecting modern labor.
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