Etymology

useless class

Today it means: A segment of the population that can no longer contribute to society due to artificial intelligence having supplanted the roles they were previously able to fulfill. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by Israeli intellectual and historian Yuval Noah Harari in 2016.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.