Will AI secure or shake Swiss prosperity?

Artificial intelligence (AI) could close the output gap caused by an ageing population or create mass unemployment and turn the global distribution of wealth on its head. Which scenario will come to pass, and what will determine the future? Behind every political debate in Switzerland that even remotely concerns the economy, the same unspoken feeling seems to emerge: the fear of losing everything. Switzerland, a poor agricultural nation just over a century ago, lives with the paranoia of a gambler.