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.
SCENARIO TIMELINE
2025
TREND: Disruption beginning
2030
TREND: Creative/social roles emerging
2035
TREND: Restructuring underway
2040
STATE: AI takes routine tasks; social justice embedded