In the Whitaker Lecture of 14 September 2018, Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, said that “the appropriate setting of monetary policy will be influenced by” the structural changes of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, which he described as driven by advances in AI, automation and interconnectedness, including through the labour market, price dynamics and the equilibrium rate of interest.

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