BCG leader calls for optimism amid AI doom and gloom, says enabling young people to ‘build and shape the future’ is key

Developments in artificial intelligence, automation and other emerging techniques often lead to fears of job losses, with approximately 40 % of the skills needed to work today change by 2030. This may seem, but one of the leader’s thought leader provides an inverted view of optimism.

“What if, instead of thinking about what we lose, we are talking about what we have the ability to build?” Laila Hutit, the administrative director and a senior partner in the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), asked in luckThe most powerful women’s summit in Riyadh on Wednesday. “What if this is our chance instead of trying to prepare the workforce to be ready for the future, to already give them confidence to build and form the future?”

Hit asserts that governments, the private sector and non -profit organizations all play major roles in helping to develop and determine the form of the future of work. These efforts are particularly decisive in regions such as the Middle East, where more than half of the population is less than 35 years old. The vast majority of companies in the main economies of the region, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have reported that there is an increasing demand for technological literacy.

These economies are already investing billions of dollars in Amnesty International’s infrastructure. Earlier this month, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman revealed a new company that develops and manages the technologies of the nation’s artificial intelligence, as a major leader for diversifying an economy that is highly dependent on oil. AI’s arrested offers in the region included agreements to sell advanced chips from NVIDIA, advanced small devices and a new AI campus in Abu Dhabi, which have been announced in the past few weeks.

Hit says the future workforce needs to work with artificial intelligence and understand large data. “We are still far from achieving this,” she warned.

The World Economic Forum expected that by 2030, 170 million new jobs will be created worldwide, with rapid growth of technology, data and Amnesty International, but also from basic economic roles including delivery drivers, care roles and teachers. But less optimistic, 92 million jobs are expected to be displaced.

Haute and BCG, after talking to more than 150 futures, published a report that will be created in the new industries that will be created, how the current sectors will be reshaped, and the parts of the economy that will completely disappear over the next fifty years.

Some promising angles of the global economy include care -based jobs, including roles aimed at helping to support mental health, or help in deprived social groups. Another field of promise is renewal and infrastructure that uses new operations and materials to support more agriculture and construction.

“You can see that there is a lot of abundance of work,” said Hotspur. “Our mission is to prepare our youth to be able to form these sectors, to be the first adoption of emerging skills.” She said that these skills include communication and the ability to lead artificial intelligence, robots and other technologies, and other capabilities such as mind, optimism and decisiveness.

In order to better prepare the future of work, Hotti argues, that education systems must be reformed and people must adopt a lifetime commitment to learning. “We need to give priority to technical literacy,” she said, adding that children should be encouraged to play with robots, experience artificial intelligence and learning in Metaverse.

Corporate entities, along with non -profit governments and organizations, must cooperate, from their point of view to create associations that can invest in counseling, lifting and talisman programs. Hotte said that this approach should differ and be designed for the residents of each local region.

“Imagine the possibility that every young man was either building a project or a solution one of our most difficult problems, such as the scarcity of water, where will the world be?” She said. “What we have to do is to make sure that we provide them with the space, skills and tools needed to reach their full potential.”

This story was originally appeared on Fortune.com

2025-05-22 17:15:00