Preventing Jobless Growth
From Agenda Dialogues by World Economic Forum
April 27, 2026 · 45 min · Season 1 · Episode 160
About this episode
The episode discusses the potential impacts of AI on productivity and the job market, exploring whether it will lead to shared prosperity or increased exclusion.
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. Speakers : 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 Valdis Dombrovskis, Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification, European Commission Erik Brynjolfsson, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor; Director, Digital Economy Lab, Stanford University Ravi Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, Cognizant This is the full audio from a session at the Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos. Watch it here…
People in this episode
Guests: Jonas Prising, Elizabeth Shuler, Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Valdis Dombrovskis, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ravi Kumar
Topics covered
- AI impact
- job market
- productivity
- economic growth
- shared prosperity
- exclusion
Keywords
- AI
- productivity
- job loss
- economic impact
- work transformation
- Davos
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: ManpowerGroup, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, European Commission, Stanford University, Cognizant
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