Welcome back to the AI Shift, our weekly exploration of how AI is changing the world of work. The public debate about the impact of AI continues to revolve around the question of whether jobs are being destroyed (for our latest take on that, see last week’s edition). But today we want to look at the other side of that coin. How could AI create jobs? And do we see any evidence of that?

Sarah writes

To unpick this one, I sat down with Bouke Klein Teeselink, an assistant professor in economics at Kings College London, and chief economist at the AI Objectives Institute. He is no Pollyanna: his research suggests that job displacement is indeed an issue, but he has also been working on a series of essays about how AI could create jobs. Here’s an edited transcript of our conversation.