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Jeremy Rifkin

Foundation on Economic Trends president; futurist

Founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends; author of 'The End of Work' (1995) and many subsequent books on automation and society. Advisor to multiple European heads of state.

current President, Foundation on Economic Trends

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Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narratives

Argued in 1995 that automation would dramatically reduce demand for human labor; updates this thesis to argue AI is the long-delayed continuation of that trajectory.

We are in the early stages of a long economic transition where machines are progressively replacing the human workforce in every sector. AI is the latest and most consequential chapter.

❧ bookThe End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era· G. P. Putnam's Sons· 1995· faithful paraphrase

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Record last updated 2026-04-25.