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Sarah O'Connor (FT) asks what happens when AI removes basic work from which new/junior staff learn the ropes?

One source she consulted 'wondered if we might one day see a return of the old apprenticeship system that existed in much of Europe before the industrial revolution, in which families who could afford it would pay for their offspring to be apprenticed to a master. The implications of this for social mobility — already not great in many professions — go without saying'!