COLLAPSE SCENARIO Privileges and regression: AI as an instrument of geopolitical control
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

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.


SCENARIO TIMELINE

2025 TREND: Disruption beginning
2030 TREND: Mass unemployment emerging
2035 TREND: Labour rights collapsing
2040 STATE: Social crisis; high skilled migration

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