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
Social crisis
Main driver
Mass unemployment with no state solution
Leading actors
(No effective actor)
State in 2040
Social crisis; high-skilled migration
Mass unemployment due to AI use leads to social crisis. Labour rights diminish as AI-managed systems dominate, and income inequality explodes without governments being able to implement solutions such as retraining. High skilled migration results.