Will AI Really Make the Middle Class Extinct by 2027? Separating Fact from Fear Recently, I came across a provocative viewpoint suggesting that in the near future, whether we like it or not, work as we know it might become obsolete. Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google’s innovation lab X and lead of their self-driving car project, issued a chilling prediction: by 2027, humanity will enter an “AI Dystopia.