Overview

• RethinkX director Adam Dorr warns this shift will be fast and disruptive as machines outmatch humans in speed, accuracy and cost efficiency.
• Roles involving routine cognitive tasks and predictable processes face the greatest risk of automation.
• Only a handful of professions—sports coaches, politicians, sex workers and ethicists—rely on uniquely human skills and are expected to endure.
• Experts including David Autor and Ford CEO Jim Farley warn that unchecked displacement could create a dystopian labor market and see half of US white-collar jobs vanish.
• Dorr and AI leaders such as Sam Altman call for bold experiments in redefining work, value and ownership to prevent widescale unemployment and inequality.