Dinis Guarda Research Films
The global population today stands at 8.3 billion people. Yet only around 65% of humanity is of working age. That leaves 5.4 billion people eligible to participate in the economic system. From that group: 3.6 billion are in the labour force 2.1 billion work in the informal economy 58% of all workers globally have no contract or safety net These are the most exposed humans in the age of AI. And while we carefully track these human numbers, we are simultaneously deploying billions of AI agents, quietly filling tasks, workflows, and entire functions. In one AI platform alone, there is an 88:1 ratio of agents to humans. Scale that reality across enterprises, governments, and platforms—and you begin to see the structural shift. AI agents are not “tools” anymore. They are becoming synthetic participants in the economy. By 2040, the world will host nearly 10 billion humanoid agents operating alongside around 9.2 billion humans.
