AI Robots May Outnumber Human Workers Within Decades as Investment Surges

A new analysis warns that AI-powered robots could outnumber human workers within a few decades as companies dramatically ramp up investment in automation and artificial intelligence. The projection arrives at a moment when the AI industry is attracting unprecedented capital — OpenAI just raised $110 billion — and governments are grappling with how to prepare workforces for a future in which machines can perform an ever-expanding range of cognitive and physical tasks. The report raises fundamental questions about the social contract in an age when the economic value of human labor may be in structural decline.