These ai futures range from steady evolution to transformative change, from a cautious recalibration to a concentration of market power. · a new world economic forum report explores how ai advances and talent trends could shape the future of jobs, in four plausible scenarios for the coming years. · as we stand at the threshold of an ai -driven era, the question isn’t whether artificial intelligence will change the world—it’s how, how fast, and in which directions. Through careful analysis of emerging signals and trends, we have identified four distinct scenarios for how ai could reshape the business landscape by 2030. July 2025 “today, a new frontier of scientific discovery lies before us, defined by transformative technologies such as artificial intelligence. Though very speculative, if an artificial general intelligence (agi) system emerges by 2034, we might see the dawn of ai systems that can autonomously generate, curate and refine their own training datasets, enabling self-improvement and adaptation without human intervention. We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like. Artificial intelligence (ai) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence , such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. Breakthroughs in these fields have the. 1 it’s informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at openai, and previous forecasting successes. Over the next ten years, ai will not only become more powerful , but more pervasive, more personal, and more ethically consequential. We predict that the impact of superhuman ai over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the industrial revolution.
