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After a year marked by AI-driven layoffs, influential leaders and top executives are now warning that we can expect to see a huge ramp up in anxiety around the technology in 2026.
Kristalina Georgieva, managing director at the International Monetary Fund, said Tuesday that AI is “a major factor for economic growth,” in a conversation with CNBC’s Karen Tso and Steve Sedgwick at the World Economic Forum’s flagship conference in Davos, Switzerland.
“We see potential to up of 0.8% boost to growth over the next years, but it is hitting the labor market like a tsunami, and most countries and most businesses are not prepared for it,” Georgieva explained.
“What do they [countries and companies] have to do? They need to think about the new skills that are already necessary and how they’re going to have these new skills,” she added.
