AI will slow hiring. So more workers will hire themselves.
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Key Facts:• AI may reduce traditional hiring while creating more opportunities for workers to start businesses.
• Quillio COO Bec Robertson forecasts a downturn in hiring in 2027.
• The IMF has warned AI is reducing demand for routine, repetitive work.
• Assistant Minister Andrew Leigh has raised concerns about AI providers becoming toll collectors for the economy.
BRISBANE, 13 October 2026: As the IMF warns of a "slow-moving tsunami" for jobs and Assistant Minister Andrew Leigh asks who will collect AI's toll, technology executive Bec Robertson says a hiring downturn shouldn't be treated as a risk, because AI is equipping more workers to run their own businesses.
"The thing nobody's saying about the IMF's tsunami warning is that I think it will be positive for workers and the economy," said Bec Robertson, futurist and COO of Australian legal AI company Quillio.
"The mistake is treating a hiring downturn as a risk. With AI, more workers are equipped to start their own business."
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said this week that AI is already reducing demand for workers in routine, repetitive tasks.
Dr Leigh has warned that if a few AI provi
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