A computer science professor is warning that advanced AI could be developed within the next couple of years, leading to mass unemployment by 2030.

On a recent episode of " The Diary of a CEO " podcast, University of Louisville Computer Science Professor Roman Yampolskiy warned that AI could cause "99%" of all workers to be unemployed by 2030. Yampolskiy said that artificial general intelligence systems (AGI) that are as capable as humans would likely be developed by 2027, leading to a labor market collapse three years later. He predicted that AI would provide "trillions of dollars" of "free labor," giving employers a better option for their employment needs.

"You have free labor, physical and cognitive, trillions of dollars of it," Yampolskiy said. "It makes no sense to hire humans

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