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In our launch week, there’s no shortage of headline news, with digitalisation itself taking centre stage. The World Economic Forum’s been busy in China recently, publishing research which suggests that the ‘robot revolution’ will create an extra 133 million jobs by 2022. With 75 million jobs being lost along the way, all this means that there should be a net gain of some 58 million jobs. Meanwhile, PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a report, timed to coincide with the WEF Summit, which examines the impact of automation on China itself. This report states that AI and related technologies could create 90 million more jobs in China alone over the next two decades. And when you add in research carried out by Goldsmiths, University of London, which reveals that organisations augmented by automation technologies are 33 per cent more likely to be ‘human friendly’ workplaces and to be 31 per cent more productive, well, are there any downsides to the AI revolution?! Presented by Phil Alsop, Editor of Digitalisation World.