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.

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: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/preventing-jobless-growth/

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