TRANSFORMATION SCENARIO Collective identity and experience: an AI order for the common good
Theme: Labour Market & Automation

Theme 8 of 9

Labour Market & Automation

How AI-driven automation affects employment, skills, and economic security — including who benefits from productivity gains and who is left behind.


Trajectory

Restructuring toward creative/social work

Main driver

Automation of routine work; social-justice focus

Leading actors

Governments; cooperatives

State in 2040

AI takes routine tasks; social justice embedded

A radical restructuring of the labour market leads people to focus increasingly on creative, social and curatorial tasks while AI completely takes over routine tasks. AI-supported automation creates a new system of work organisation in which social justice is promoted and new working models emerge.

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