Overview

• OpenAI, Google and Microsoft are pushing AI toward personal organizers, with OpenAI’s Pulse offering daily tailored recommendations, Google’s Gemini in Chrome adding contextual help, and Microsoft’s Copilot in Edge executing tasks on the web.
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI already outperforms humans on phone and IT support and expects customer-service roles to be lost, while emphasizing that most work will be reshaped to enable more creative tasks.
• Consultancies and the International Labour Organization estimate that millions of jobs will be substituted or transformed over the next decade as new technologies spread.
• AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy predicts AGI could emerge by 2027 and forecasts up to 99% job automation by 2030, presenting a far more extreme outlook than mainstream estimates.
• Creative workers have pressed for protections, including Hollywood strikes and Mexican dubbing actors’ proposals, as leaders also warn about weaponization, chip-security tensions and deepfake-driven fraud.