The World Economic Forum in Davos will welcome Xi Jinping this week as a star attraction, signalling China’s growing role in the global economy. However, the big talking point may be the effect of new technology on the future of work and jobs, as AI and machine learning threaten jobs across all sectors. As ComputerWeekly.com notes in this article, technology is affecting the way we work and may be causing the big political changes we have seen in 2016. How the world adapts to these new technologies will define the coming decades.