David Patterson predicts AI and robots will replace all workers by end of 2030
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-10-31
Turing Award winner David Patterson shared what he calls "the most important graph in economic history", predicting that superintelligence and robots will do all jobs better than humans by end of 2028 and replace all workers by end of 2030. The attached chart shows economic output going exponential from 2026 while employment collapses to zero between 2029 and 2031 — a far more aggressive timeline than mainstream forecasts.
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