Dystopian scenarios about the disappearance of work are making a comeback after a year-long lull. Largely fueled by the Citrini Research report predicting a worker catastrophe in the short term, these scenarios rest on an assumption of radical and excessive automation; the idea of recursive AI is also present.Both on its technological and economic fundamentals, the report and these scenarios are generally very fragile.In the longer term, however, we must remain vigilant. One of the central points of the digital economy is its capacity to concentrate capital and circumvent regulation. The capital-labor distortion introduced by globalization could therefore increase radically if we are not careful. This is the subject of my latest article in Les Échos. [Translated from EN to English]

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