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“92 million jobs will disappear by 2030.”

In the ‘Future Jobs Report’ published this year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) predicted that the global employment market will change rapidly due to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and humanoid robot technology.

It was predicted that more new jobs would be created, but the key point is that some people cannot avoid ‘job restructuring’. And that too within just 5 years.

The beginning of a new industrial revolution. What will the future of humanity look like?

■ ‘Artificial intelligence robot workers’ who work instead of humans

Agility Robotics‘ headquarters factory in Oregon, USA. The humanoid robot ‘Digit’ produced here is being tested for its ability to work in place of humans by being put into actual industrial sites, including the world’s first e-commerce company, Amazon.

The reporters covered various forms of ‘artificial intelligence robots’ that have entered human workplaces, such as fully unmanned and commercialized self-driving robotaxi in the United States, and semi-humanoid and delivery robots in Korea.

■ Artificial intelligence and robots entering the workplace, humans leaving the workplace

As AI-powered robots begin to take over human work, some people are already leaving their precious workplaces.

The reporters went to Germany and met young people who lost their jobs because of artificial intelligence.

About 100 young people working at the German headquarters of video sharing platform TikTok were notified of their dismissal via email this year.

The company laid out a plan to replace the work they used to do with artificial intelligence and algorithms.

There are workers in similar situations in Korea.

With the rapid introduction of AI agents and chatbots, call center counselors are experiencing job anxiety every day.

Does this phenomenon only apply to some occupations?

KBS conducted a joint awareness survey on ‘the future of jobs that will be changed by artificial intelligence and robot technology’ targeting 110 domestic companies, including large corporations, medium-sized companies, and 3,227 workers across the country.

■ Warning from ‘Artificial Intelligence Godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton

Jeffrey Hinton, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, who devoted his entire life to research on ‘deep learning’, a machine that learns like humans, and won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year for his contribution to the creation of artificial intelligence, participated in an exclusive video interview with KBS.

Professor Hinton delivered warnings and recommendations to Korean viewers in an honest voice about unemployment, inequality, and the darkest scenarios that the artificial intelligence he created would bring.

■ New industrial revolution…what will future humans look like?

Most experts agree that job disruption and reorganization of the economic structure are inevitable in the near future due to the development of artificial intelligence and robot technology.

So what should humans do now and how should they make a living?

Among various solutions, ‘basic income’ is sometimes proposed.

The logic is that if the productivity of the entire society is maximized through artificial intelligence and robot technology, a tragic future can be avoided only if the ‘wealth’ created by it can be shared evenly.

In Germany, which has been experimenting with ‘unconditional basic income’ for three years, reporters investigated what effect it would have on human life if an actual basic income was given.
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#Artificial Intelligence #AI #Humanoid #Robot #Physical AI #Agility Robotics #Digit #Amazon #Elon Musk #AI layoffs #AI unemployment

Reporter: Song Geun-seop
Photographer: Kim Jang-heon
Video Editing: Ahn Young-ah
Director of Photography: Jeong Young-eun
Data Research: Seohyun Kim
Assistant Director: Sang-Hoon Yoon, Myung-Ho Choi
Broadcast date: November 25, 2025, 10 p.m. KBS 1TV Current Affairs Planning Window

Reporter Song Geun-seop (sks85@kbs.co.kr)