Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey On AI, Jobs And The Future Of Work

At BT Davos 2026, Carl Benedikt Frey, Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford, joins Siddharth Zarabi, Group Editor, Business Today, and Rajdeep Sardesai, Consulting Editor, India Today TV, for a wide-ranging discussion on AI and the future of work. Frey examines whether labour markets and institutions are adapting fast enough to large-scale cognitive automation, the risks of a modern “technology trap,” and how skills must evolve as AI reshapes tasks. The conversation also explores inequality, power concentration, productivity gains, policy responses, and whether the current AI surge reflects hype or lasting economic transformation.