…The new divide will be between fast-learning and slow-learning states
Artificial intelligence is often described as a threat to jobs. That framing misses the larger danger. The real economic divide of the next decade will not be between countries with AI and those without it. It will be between states that can rapidly retrain their workforce and those that cannot.
Automation is not erasing labour. It is reorganising it at a speed governments are struggling to match.
The World Economic Forum estimates that by 2030,
