The Green Room podcast
What will be the last job on earth?
As AI changes the rules of work, experience might not be your greatest advantage. But your curiosity might.
How do we prepare for a future we can’t yet see?
AI has transformed our lives in ways we couldn’t have predicted.
It’s helping us create, analyse and make decisions, challenging everything we thought we knew about the future of work.
Nobody knows exactly what work will look like next year, let alone in ten years' time – but it doesn’t stop us preparing for the future. That's as true today as it was back in 2019 when, in the very first episode of The Green Room, we asked: “What will be the last job on earth?”
Seven years later, we’re asking it again. Because with the benefit of hindsight and the advent of AI, will we arrive at a different answer?
From new jobs emerging and changing career paths to the skills that will matter most to stay ahead - we explore how individuals, businesses and society can prepare for and enable a prosperous future of work.
Watch below, or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Read the transcript here.
The pace of change is faster than ever before, and I'm not sure if it will ever slow down. So clearly AI is changing things all the time. But geopolitics is now changing. Supply chain and security is changing... Companies need to be more adaptable than ever before.
Ben Legg – former-COO, Google Europe
“I don't think we are going to lose our jobs to AI.”
For Anne-Marie Malley, UK Sustainability Leader and Vice Chair for Deloitte UK, it’s the people who best enable themselves with AI that pose a risk to us being left behind as the future of work is transformed by the new technology.
Increasingly, it’s not a question of who uses AI and who doesn’t, it’s who uses it best. While access to AI for workers increased by 50% in 2025, insufficient workforce skills are now considered the biggest barrier to AI integration (Deloitte's 2026 State of AI in the Enterprise report).
That’s why Anne-Marie rejects the idea of AI being a simple job replacement story: “I don’t see it's going to be a 'displace and replace'. I think it’s going to be an enhancement. I can't think of a job that exists today that will not be enhanced by AI.”
But if the jobs of tomorrow are still taking shape, how do we prepare for them today? After all, turning AI potential into real-world impact depends on helping everyone build the right skills today.
Hear more on AI skills and how we upskill an entire nation in episode #102: How do we turn AI ambition into a national advantage?
“I'm going to ask the dumb questions in public.”
Building the right skills requires individuals to buy-in and leaders to show the way.
It needs - according to Anne-Marie Malley - people who are willing to learn, evolve and constantly challenge. But it also needs organisations getting their workforces enthusiastic about learning and experimenting with AI.
Ben Legg, former-COO of Google Europe, says leaders need to “lead from the front” and “learn in public”.
That requires humility – showcasing your experiments, your learnings and even your failings for all to see!
Because at organisations where that happens, teams feel more encouraged to create their own “geek culture”, which leads to more adoption, more learning and ultimately better results.
The future belongs to the endlessly adaptable – are you ready to join them?
Hear more from Ben and Anne-Marie about how AI is reshaping hiring and talent, why new roles are beginning to emerge, and what individuals, businesses and society can do to build the skills needed to prosper in the years ahead. Along the way, we’ll even revisit our original predictions from seven years ago and explore what they can teach us about preparing for the future of work today.
Watch below, or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Read the transcript here.
We need people who really want to learn constantly, evolve constantly, challenge constantly... Curiosity, great comms skills, communication skills, high on EQ, that's the differentiator when we come to the technology. The human differentiator.
Anne-Marie Malley – UK Sustainability Leader and Vice Chair, Deloitte UK
Let’s make this work.
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