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Scenarios for the Global Economy Dialogue Series

Four Futures for Jobs
in the New Economy:
AI and Talent in 2030

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Contents


Executive summary                                              3

1  Introduction                                                 5

2 Four futures for jobs in 2030                                     7

3  Implications for businesses                                     14

4 How businesses can prepare today for any scenario                 16

Contributors                                                  17

Endnotes                                                    19





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                                             Four Futures for Jobs in the New Economy: AI and Talent in 2030   2

Executive summary
Foresight provides a lens to explore critical
uncertainties and shape strategies to
navigate and harness transformative shifts.



 The rapid commercialization of emerging technologies       Supercharged Progress: Exponential AI                                             1
 is reshaping workflows, business models and talent          breakthroughs reshape industries, business
 pipelines. As artificial intelligence (AI) shifts from            models and workflows. Productivity soars and
 experimentation to integration, the pace and trajectory         innovation flourishes. Widespread AI readiness
 of its advancement deepen the uncertainty about             allows people to harness the “agentic leap”,
 its implications on businesses, workers and the             adapt to AI-centric economies and partially
 global economy.                                           contain displacement. Many jobs have
                                                         disappeared, but new occupations emerge
 The views of business executives on the impact          and scale fast, in part with humans directing
 of AI vary too: glo