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In some contexts, it is realistic to fear a significant and rapid contraction in available jobs.
POPE LEO XIV — 2026
AI will affect almost 40 percent of jobs around the world, replacing some and complementing others.
KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA / IMF — 2024
Generative AI could transform roughly 40% of working hours.
ACCENTURE — 2023
It is urgent to act now.
OECD
Among 22–25-year-olds, employment in highly AI-exposed occupations is about 19% below the trajectory it would have followed if it had kept pace with similarly aged workers in less-exposed occupations.
STANFORD DIGITAL ECONOMY LAB — 2026
Ultimately, the revolution in work is still a long way off.
FRENCH SENATE — 2026
One in four jobs worldwide is potentially exposed to generative AI — but transformation, rather than replacement, is considered the most likely outcome.
ILO — 2025
170 million jobs created. 92 million displaced. Forecast net gain: 78 million jobs by 2030.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM — 2025
AI and emerging digital technologies are expected to increase overall employment in Europe — but the gains may be uneven, with greater risks for younger and lower-skilled workers.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION — 2026
At companies most exposed to AI, headcount has grown faster than at the least-exposed companies: +52% versus +36% since 2018.
PWC — 2026
Who owns it, who profits from it … and who pays the environmental and political bill?
GREENPEACE — 2026
Workers in China are already reporting layoffs, lower wages and career changes linked to AI, while the country simultaneously accelerates AI deployment.
CHINA — WORKERS — 2026
China can build kung-fu-fighting humanoid robots. They still struggle, for the most part, to do useful factory work.
CHINA — HUMANOID ROBOTS — 2026
Technology does not eliminate work. The nature of jobs changes.
NARENDRA MODI
Technology can eliminate jobs and increase insecurity if its benefits flow first to companies rather than workers.
LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA
AI investment will catalyse job creation.
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA — 2026
My prediction is that work will be optional. Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future.
ELON MUSK — 2025
Within the next decade, intelligence will become free.
BILL GATES — 2025
AI will not make humans redundant. It may instead create labor shortages by making far more projects possible than human capacity allows today.
JEFF BEZOS — 2026
I’m glad to have been wrong about this. I thought the impact on eliminating entry-level white-collar jobs would have been greater than it actually has been.
SAM ALTMAN — 2026
An automated AI researcher, with a significant fraction of research potentially performed by AI systems alongside human researchers by March 2028.
OPENAI — 2026 / 2028
Millions of people could lose their jobs or be forced to change professions, and entire professions could disappear as a result of AI.
VLADIMIR PUTIN — 2026
Creating new jobs in an AI-powered economy.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION — 2026
It is not going to replace human beings. It will never replace human beings.
JD VANCE — 2025
The development of AI should not be the work of a single country, but a symphony played by all.
XI JINPING — 2026
AI is transforming the organization of work and skills, but can become a driver of growth and decent job creation.
ALASSANE OUATTARA — 2026
A company without humans. Argentina is considering a legal status allowing a company to be owned and operated by AI agents or robots, without a human shareholder.
JAVIER MILEI / ARGENTINA — 2026
It is impossible to stop this wave of change. Our responsibility is to manage it in a controlled manner.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN — 2026
14.2% of jobs at risk of automation in high-income economies. 4.5% in low- and middle-income economies. AI offers a lifeline to developing economies in an era of weak growth.
WORLD BANK — 2026
AI is no longer only assisting workers. It is beginning to replace them.
WALL STREET — 2026
We are not yet seeing the negative effects of AI on employment that many people predict. AI replaces tasks more than entire jobs.
PHILIPPE AGHION — 2026
The productivity promise of AI fascinates and terrifies me. Teaching or care can be automated. That does not mean the human relationship can be replaced without degrading the service.
ESTHER DUFLO
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.
STEPHEN HAWKING — 2015
North Korean IT workers are using AI to pretend to be Western remote workers — and get hired.
NORTH KOREAN REMOTE WORKERS — 2026
Work is not only a way to earn a living. It also helps people build themselves, do interesting things and create relationships with others.
CÉDRIC VILLANI
A society in which AI produces enormous wealth can still be a bad society if that wealth is concentrated and humans are condemned to idleness they did not choose.
PETER SINGER
The student has AI write the paper. The professor has another AI grade it. Both humans are finally freed from work. But then — who is communicating with whom?
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
We must not demand unilateral sacrifice from workers solely in the name of productivity gains.
LEE JAE-MYUNG — 2026
Not using AI means risking being left behind.
TIM COOK
AI will probably not eliminate the majority of jobs.
META / MARK ZUCKERBERG — 2026
AI must improve people’s lives or it will lose social support.
SATYA NADELLA
The more productive AI makes us, the more work we will have.
JENSEN HUANG
12 hours of work per week. 4 hours a day, 3 days a week.
JACK MA
Her assignments stopped after the arrival of ChatGPT. Her clients preferred using automated tools rather than paying for her writing.
EMMANUELLE ORVAIN
I’m no longer paid to write a text from A to Z. Clients send me AI-generated text and ask for a ‘simple proofread’ or a quick correction. Obviously, the budgets have shrunk.
OLIVIER, 46 — COPYWRITER
I’m not worried at all. I don’t think my job will ever be replaced by a machine, simply because you need a real human being to look after children’s safety and emotions.
ANIMATOR / TEACHER
In some contexts, it is realistic to fear a significant and rapid contraction in available jobs.
POPE LEO XIV — 2026
AI will affect almost 40 percent of jobs around the world, replacing some and complementing others.
KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA / IMF — 2024
Generative AI could transform roughly 40% of working hours.
ACCENTURE — 2023
It is urgent to act now.
OECD
Among 22–25-year-olds, employment in highly AI-exposed occupations is about 19% below the trajectory it would have followed if it had kept pace with similarly aged workers in less-exposed occupations.
STANFORD DIGITAL ECONOMY LAB — 2026
Ultimately, the revolution in work is still a long way off.
FRENCH SENATE — 2026
One in four jobs worldwide is potentially exposed to generative AI — but transformation, rather than replacement, is considered the most likely outcome.
ILO — 2025
170 million jobs created. 92 million displaced. Forecast net gain: 78 million jobs by 2030.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM — 2025
AI and emerging digital technologies are expected to increase overall employment in Europe — but the gains may be uneven, with greater risks for younger and lower-skilled workers.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION — 2026
At companies most exposed to AI, headcount has grown faster than at the least-exposed companies: +52% versus +36% since 2018.
PWC — 2026
Who owns it, who profits from it … and who pays the environmental and political bill?
GREENPEACE — 2026
Workers in China are already reporting layoffs, lower wages and career changes linked to AI, while the country simultaneously accelerates AI deployment.
CHINA — WORKERS — 2026
China can build kung-fu-fighting humanoid robots. They still struggle, for the most part, to do useful factory work.
CHINA — HUMANOID ROBOTS — 2026
Technology does not eliminate work. The nature of jobs changes.
NARENDRA MODI
Technology can eliminate jobs and increase insecurity if its benefits flow first to companies rather than workers.
LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA
AI investment will catalyse job creation.
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA — 2026
My prediction is that work will be optional. Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future.
ELON MUSK — 2025
Within the next decade, intelligence will become free.
BILL GATES — 2025
AI will not make humans redundant. It may instead create labor shortages by making far more projects possible than human capacity allows today.
JEFF BEZOS — 2026
I’m glad to have been wrong about this. I thought the impact on eliminating entry-level white-collar jobs would have been greater than it actually has been.
SAM ALTMAN — 2026
An automated AI researcher, with a significant fraction of research potentially performed by AI systems alongside human researchers by March 2028.
OPENAI — 2026 / 2028
Millions of people could lose their jobs or be forced to change professions, and entire professions could disappear as a result of AI.
VLADIMIR PUTIN — 2026
Creating new jobs in an AI-powered economy.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION — 2026
It is not going to replace human beings. It will never replace human beings.
JD VANCE — 2025
The development of AI should not be the work of a single country, but a symphony played by all.
XI JINPING — 2026
AI is transforming the organization of work and skills, but can become a driver of growth and decent job creation.
ALASSANE OUATTARA — 2026
A company without humans. Argentina is considering a legal status allowing a company to be owned and operated by AI agents or robots, without a human shareholder.
JAVIER MILEI / ARGENTINA — 2026
It is impossible to stop this wave of change. Our responsibility is to manage it in a controlled manner.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN — 2026
14.2% of jobs at risk of automation in high-income economies. 4.5% in low- and middle-income economies. AI offers a lifeline to developing economies in an era of weak growth.
WORLD BANK — 2026
AI is no longer only assisting workers. It is beginning to replace them.
WALL STREET — 2026
We are not yet seeing the negative effects of AI on employment that many people predict. AI replaces tasks more than entire jobs.
PHILIPPE AGHION — 2026
The productivity promise of AI fascinates and terrifies me. Teaching or care can be automated. That does not mean the human relationship can be replaced without degrading the service.
ESTHER DUFLO
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.
STEPHEN HAWKING — 2015
North Korean IT workers are using AI to pretend to be Western remote workers — and get hired.
NORTH KOREAN REMOTE WORKERS — 2026
Work is not only a way to earn a living. It also helps people build themselves, do interesting things and create relationships with others.
CÉDRIC VILLANI
A society in which AI produces enormous wealth can still be a bad society if that wealth is concentrated and humans are condemned to idleness they did not choose.
PETER SINGER
The student has AI write the paper. The professor has another AI grade it. Both humans are finally freed from work. But then — who is communicating with whom?
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
We must not demand unilateral sacrifice from workers solely in the name of productivity gains.
LEE JAE-MYUNG — 2026
Not using AI means risking being left behind.
TIM COOK
AI will probably not eliminate the majority of jobs.
META / MARK ZUCKERBERG — 2026
AI must improve people’s lives or it will lose social support.
SATYA NADELLA
The more productive AI makes us, the more work we will have.
JENSEN HUANG
12 hours of work per week. 4 hours a day, 3 days a week.
JACK MA
Her assignments stopped after the arrival of ChatGPT. Her clients preferred using automated tools rather than paying for her writing.
EMMANUELLE ORVAIN
I’m no longer paid to write a text from A to Z. Clients send me AI-generated text and ask for a ‘simple proofread’ or a quick correction. Obviously, the budgets have shrunk.
OLIVIER, 46 — COPYWRITER
I’m not worried at all. I don’t think my job will ever be replaced by a machine, simply because you need a real human being to look after children’s safety and emotions.
ANIMATOR / TEACHER
In some contexts, it is realistic to fear a significant and rapid contraction in available jobs.
POPE LEO XIV — 2026
AI will affect almost 40 percent of jobs around the world, replacing some and complementing others.
KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA / IMF — 2024
Generative AI could transform roughly 40% of working hours.
ACCENTURE — 2023
It is urgent to act now.
OECD
Among 22–25-year-olds, employment in highly AI-exposed occupations is about 19% below the trajectory it would have followed if it had kept pace with similarly aged workers in less-exposed occupations.
STANFORD DIGITAL ECONOMY LAB — 2026
Ultimately, the revolution in work is still a long way off.
FRENCH SENATE — 2026
One in four jobs worldwide is potentially exposed to generative AI — but transformation, rather than replacement, is considered the most likely outcome.
ILO — 2025
170 million jobs created. 92 million displaced. Forecast net gain: 78 million jobs by 2030.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM — 2025
AI and emerging digital technologies are expected to increase overall employment in Europe — but the gains may be uneven, with greater risks for younger and lower-skilled workers.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION — 2026
At companies most exposed to AI, headcount has grown faster than at the least-exposed companies: +52% versus +36% since 2018.
PWC — 2026
Who owns it, who profits from it … and who pays the environmental and political bill?
GREENPEACE — 2026
Workers in China are already reporting layoffs, lower wages and career changes linked to AI, while the country simultaneously accelerates AI deployment.
CHINA — WORKERS — 2026
China can build kung-fu-fighting humanoid robots. They still struggle, for the most part, to do useful factory work.
CHINA — HUMANOID ROBOTS — 2026
Technology does not eliminate work. The nature of jobs changes.
NARENDRA MODI
Technology can eliminate jobs and increase insecurity if its benefits flow first to companies rather than workers.
LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA
AI investment will catalyse job creation.
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA — 2026
My prediction is that work will be optional. Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future.
ELON MUSK — 2025
Within the next decade, intelligence will become free.
BILL GATES — 2025
AI will not make humans redundant. It may instead create labor shortages by making far more projects possible than human capacity allows today.
JEFF BEZOS — 2026
I’m glad to have been wrong about this. I thought the impact on eliminating entry-level white-collar jobs would have been greater than it actually has been.
SAM ALTMAN — 2026
An automated AI researcher, with a significant fraction of research potentially performed by AI systems alongside human researchers by March 2028.
OPENAI — 2026 / 2028
Millions of people could lose their jobs or be forced to change professions, and entire professions could disappear as a result of AI.
VLADIMIR PUTIN — 2026
Creating new jobs in an AI-powered economy.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION — 2026
It is not going to replace human beings. It will never replace human beings.
JD VANCE — 2025
The development of AI should not be the work of a single country, but a symphony played by all.
XI JINPING — 2026
AI is transforming the organization of work and skills, but can become a driver of growth and decent job creation.
ALASSANE OUATTARA — 2026
A company without humans. Argentina is considering a legal status allowing a company to be owned and operated by AI agents or robots, without a human shareholder.
JAVIER MILEI / ARGENTINA — 2026
It is impossible to stop this wave of change. Our responsibility is to manage it in a controlled manner.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN — 2026
14.2% of jobs at risk of automation in high-income economies. 4.5% in low- and middle-income economies. AI offers a lifeline to developing economies in an era of weak growth.
WORLD BANK — 2026
AI is no longer only assisting workers. It is beginning to replace them.
WALL STREET — 2026
We are not yet seeing the negative effects of AI on employment that many people predict. AI replaces tasks more than entire jobs.
PHILIPPE AGHION — 2026
The productivity promise of AI fascinates and terrifies me. Teaching or care can be automated. That does not mean the human relationship can be replaced without degrading the service.
ESTHER DUFLO
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.
STEPHEN HAWKING — 2015
North Korean IT workers are using AI to pretend to be Western remote workers — and get hired.
NORTH KOREAN REMOTE WORKERS — 2026
Work is not only a way to earn a living. It also helps people build themselves, do interesting things and create relationships with others.
CÉDRIC VILLANI
A society in which AI produces enormous wealth can still be a bad society if that wealth is concentrated and humans are condemned to idleness they did not choose.
PETER SINGER
The student has AI write the paper. The professor has another AI grade it. Both humans are finally freed from work. But then — who is communicating with whom?
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
We must not demand unilateral sacrifice from workers solely in the name of productivity gains.
LEE JAE-MYUNG — 2026
Not using AI means risking being left behind.
TIM COOK
AI will probably not eliminate the majority of jobs.
META / MARK ZUCKERBERG — 2026
AI must improve people’s lives or it will lose social support.
SATYA NADELLA
The more productive AI makes us, the more work we will have.
JENSEN HUANG
12 hours of work per week. 4 hours a day, 3 days a week.
JACK MA
Her assignments stopped after the arrival of ChatGPT. Her clients preferred using automated tools rather than paying for her writing.
EMMANUELLE ORVAIN
I’m no longer paid to write a text from A to Z. Clients send me AI-generated text and ask for a ‘simple proofread’ or a quick correction. Obviously, the budgets have shrunk.
OLIVIER, 46 — COPYWRITER
I’m not worried at all. I don’t think my job will ever be replaced by a machine, simply because you need a real human being to look after children’s safety and emotions.
ANIMATOR / TEACHER