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Comment by Dame Nemat Talaat Shafik, DBE, aka Minouche Shafik

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Economist; chief economic adviser to UK PM Keir Starmer; former Bank of England Deputy Governor and Director of the LSE
A certain degree of alarmism, which is probably disproportionate [...] People are talking their book and making it sound like you can run a company without any employees in the future.
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AI Verified Verified. I could not access the Yahoo page directly, but another source does contain the quote: HRreview’s June 12, 2026 report on a Chatham House event quotes Minouche Shafik as saying, “I do think that there’s a certain degree of alarmism, which is probably disproportionate” and later, “people are talking their book and making it sound like you can run a company without any employees in the future ...” This matches your excerpt with permissible omissions via [...]. Chatham House also confirms Baroness Minouche Shafik was a speaker at that on-the-record June 9, 2026 event. ([hrreview.co.uk](https://hrreview.co.uk/hr-news/jobs-labour-market/labour-market-yet-to-show-major-ai-impact-on-jobs/388481?amp=1&utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Minouche Shafik (2026), statement "AI will create more jobs than it destroys", vote "for". The Yahoo source URL returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch (bot protection), as does the resultsense.com mirror. However, I independently confirmed via web search across multiple outlets that the exact quote is genuine: at a Chatham House event in June 2026, Shafik (Starmer's chief economic adviser) said there was "a certain degree of alarmism, which is probably disproportionate," amplified by executives "talking their book," adding "People are talking their book and making it sound like you can run a company without any employees in the future," and that there is "no evidence yet of massive displacement as a result of AI." Quote text and attribution are accurate; year 2026 is correct and recent. Vote "for" is a reasonable alignment since she rejects the AI job-destruction apocalypse narrative. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
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