Artificial intelligence  revolution 'opens door to four day week', says Nobel Prize winner

A phone with the Google Bard website on the screen. Bard is Google's artificial intelligence app.

The ChatGPT and Bard artificial intelligence revolution opens the door to a four-day week by providing a major productivity boost for swathes of jobs, according to a Nobel Prize-wining economist.

Christopher Pissarides — a professor at the London School of Economics who specialises in the impact of automation on work — said the labour market can adapt quickly enough to artificial intelligence-backed chatbots. His remark tamps down concerns that rapid advances in technology could bring mass job losses.