Daniel Susskind
"The age of labour, where paid work is the foundation of society, will no longer be viable."
Daniel Susskind is a leading economist on technology, automation, and the future of work. He is the Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, a Research Professor at King's College London, a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford, and a Digital Fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He also sits on the UK Government's Expert Panel on AI and the Future of Work.
Susskind is the bestselling author of A World Without Work and Growth: A Reckoning, chosen by President Obama as one of his favourite books of 2024. His new book, What Should My Children Do? How To Flourish in the Age of AI, publishes this September and asks how the next generation should prepare for a world transformed by artificial intelligence.
"A tour de force." — Gordon Brown