Genesis: Human Experience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Genesis: Human Experience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Luke Soon

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The Future of Work : Year by Year Trajectories 2025–2050:

By Dr Luke Soon, Computer Scientist

Introduction: The Decisive Decades

From 2025 to 2050, the tectonic plates of work will shift faster than at any point since the Industrial Revolution.

  • AI’s productivity potential could add 15% to global GDP by 2035 .
  • Climate damage could erase 7% of GDP in the same period.
  • By 2030, the World Economic Forum predicts 1.1 billion jobs will be radically transformed by technology and sustainability transitions.

We’ve worked on a prime-radiant of sorts; provides a lens into this future: year-by-year projections of GDP, productivity, participation, and skill trajectories. It is a playbook of possible tomorrows.

1. Year-by-Year Trajectories (2025 → 2050)

2025–2030: The Reskilling Shock

  • Generative AI adoption enters every back office.
  • New roles: AI Prompt Engineer, Agentic Workflow Designer, Cyber-Physical Risk Analyst.
  • Sectors:
    • Law & Tax: AI copilots handle drafting; lawyers pivot to AI ethics and governance.
    • Healthcare: Concierge telehealth and AI diagnostic assistants surge.
    • Manufacturing: Robotics + AI = Automation Supervisors and Digital Twin Managers.

2030–2035: The Great Divergence

  • Trust-Based Transformation: GDP index climbs ~132 (2025=100 baseline).
  • Turbulent Times: GDP index stagnates ~125.
  • Jobs polarise:
    • Sustainability Analysts become critical across all sectors.
    • AI Safety & Governance Leads move from niche to mainstream.
  • Education sector reinvents around Skills Wallets and modular credentials.

2035–2040: The Human-AI Co-Production Era

  • Majority of enterprises deploy agentic AI with embedded trust frameworks.
  • New roles: Human-AI Co-Design Facilitator, Ethical Data Curator, Metaverse Workplace Architect.
  • Public administration invests in GovTech Guardians ensuring algorithmic transparency.

2040–2050: The HX Century

  • AI saturates every workflow. The decisive differentiator is HX (Human Experience).
  • Future skills converge on creativity, empathy, systems thinking, and planetary stewardship.
  • New archetypes: Climate Restoration Engineer, Human Experience Strategist, AI-augmented Educator.

2. Sector-by-Sector Skill Predictions

Law & Tax

  • 2025: Copilot-driven drafting.
  • 2035: Shift to advisory + trust building.
  • 2050: AI interpreters of evolving machine-governed regulations.

Healthcare

  • 2025: AI diagnostics, telehealth.
  • 2030: Integrated Bio-AI Coaches.
  • 2040+: Longevity advisors and Human Enhancement Ethicists.

Financial Services

  • 2025: Blockchain auditors, tokenised asset managers.
  • 2035: AI Wealth Guardians ensuring fiduciary trust.
  • 2050: HX financial designers embedding purpose into every portfolio.

Technology & Data

  • 2025: Prompt engineers.
  • 2030: Agentic Orchestration Leads.
  • 2040: Living Intelligence Custodians (bridging human & machine cognition).

Energy & Climate

  • 2025: Net-zero auditors.
  • 2030: Grid decarbonisation architects.
  • 2050: Climate restoration engineers, planetary rewilding experts.

3. Voices from the Field

  • David Autor (MIT): “Technology is not destiny — it is policy and social design that determine who benefits.”
  • Fei-Fei Li (Stanford): “AI is a mirror; what we see reflected is our collective values.”
  • Geoff Hinton: “Neural networks succeeded because they learned. Now humanity must learn as fast as the systems we created.”
  • PwC’s Value in Motion: Industries reconfigure around human needs — Care, Move, Build, Fuel, Connect, Govern.

4. The Reinvention Agenda

Our FutureBack framework sets out four pathways:

  1. Vision (2035): Singapore as a global lighthouse for Trusted, Agentic AI.
  2. Backcasts: Skills Wallets (2029), Safe AI co-pilots (2035).
  3. Programmes: AI Governance, Sector Academies, SME enablement.
  4. Quick Wins: AI starter kits, HX sprints, sandbox pilots.

The Agency × Pathway matrix shows:

  • Individuals must own upskilling.
  • Organisations lead redeployment.
  • States anchor reskilling.

Conclusion: Designing Uncertainty

The future of work is not a singular path. It is a fork between abundance and fragmentation.

The spread between Trust-Based Transformation and Turbulent Times is not just GDP points — it is the difference between thriving human experiences and fractured, hollowed-out work.

The invitation before us is clear:

  • Treat uncertainty as fuel for creativity.
  • Invest in skills, trust, and human-AI collaboration.
  • Ensure HX — the fusion of customer and employee experience — remains our North Star.

The future is not waiting for 2050. It is being designed, line by line, in every decision we take in 2025.

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