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Preventing Jobless Growth

Forecasts of AI’s impact on productivity vary widely, from those projecting a 15% boost in labour output across advanced economies to warnings that as many as 92 million jobs could vanish globally by 2030.

Generative AI will transform work as we know it, but will that transformation lead to shared prosperity or widening exclusion? How can we prevent productivity gains from masking a much bleaker economic picture.

This is the full audio from a session at the Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos. Watch it here:

Guests:

Erik Brynjolfsson

Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor; Director, Digital Economy Lab, Stanford University

Valdis Dombrovskis

Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification, European Commission

Ravi Kumar S.

Chief Executive Officer, Cognizant

Jonas Prising

Chair and Chief Executive Officer, ManpowerGroup

Elizabeth Shuler

President, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

Laura D'Andrea Tyson

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

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