“The crucial problem isn't creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms. Consequently, by 2050 a new class of people might emerge – the useless class. People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable.”
Historian and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and Nexus; lecturer in history, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Said May 8, 2017Deadline Dec 31, 2050The Guardian, 'The meaning of life in a world without work', 8 May 2017 (adapted from Homo Deus)
Target is 2050; as of 2026 AI-driven displacement is visible in some white-collar and customer-service roles, but no 'useless class' of structurally unemployable people has emerged.