The Future of Purpose in the Age of AI

By Futurist Thomas Frey

For most of human history, purpose has been inseparable from productivity. We built, repaired, invented, and managed — not just to earn a living, but to prove we mattered. Work became the moral backbone of identity. It gave structure to our days and meaning to our existence. But as artificial intelligence and automation increasingly take over both the physical and cognitive tasks that once defined human effort, we’re confronting a question that no generation before us has had to face: What happens when being useful is no longer essential to survival?

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