Lord Markham on AI will create more jobs than it destro…

Lord Markham

Conservative member of the UK House of Lords; supports strong AI safety monitoring, alignment checks, and kill-switch research.

Technological progress did not simply replace jobs; it created entirely new forms of prosperity and human endeavour. Therefore, when the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Oxford asks what jobs AI will destroy, and rightly expresses concern over that, we should also ask, what opportunities will it create? The honest answer is that many of those opportunities are currently beyond our imagination.

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Lord Markham, House of Lords debate “Artificial Intelligence: Impact on Human Relationships and Society,” Hansard, June 5, 2026.

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

However, we also see that there are dangers to overregulation and tying our hands behind our back. Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, AI is a winner-takes-all world.

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The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity

If we really believe in the power of superintelligence, we have to accept that it is probably a winner-takes-all world, and whoever gets there first is likely to be the winner who takes all.

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

For me, a one-sided moratorium which ties our hands behind our backs while the likes of North Korea and the al-Qaedas of the world crack on: no, I am afraid that that worries me even more.

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