Klaus Schwab is back: “Knowledge will become superfluous” – algorithms will think for us in the future, citizens should trust Big Tech

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If intelligence were to become a service billed according to consumption, the intelligent age would only benefit the elite and those who can afford it

The intelligent age is replacing our cognitive abilities with AI, and according to WEF founder Klaus Schwab, universities should focus on teaching students how to use technology competently, rather than simply imparting knowledge.

In a live stream at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, Schwab spoke at length about what he calls “the intelligent age” and what this means for jobs, students and humanity.

The architect of the Great Reset agenda compared previous industrial revolutions to the so-called intelligent age, explaining that our thinking abilities were now being delegated to artificial intelligence.

“What does the intelligent age bring about? It replaces our cognitive abilities with algorithms, or what we call artificial intelligence.” – Klaus Schwab, The Intelligent Age and the Responsibility of African Leadership, May 2026

According to Schwab, in this brave new world where intelligence is delegated to algorithms, those who can adapt will be the winners.

However, we will see that this adaptability – or as the German-born Schwab calls it: “Adaptility” [sic] – means having enough money to afford access to AI knowledge databases and knowing how to use them to one’s advantage.

“People no longer really understand what is going on […] We feel like we no longer have control over what is going on […] We may no longer have complete control over ourselves, but we have to learn to adapt.” – Klaus Schwab, The Intelligent Age and the Responsibility of African Leadership, May 2026

Note how Schwab says, “If I make the necessary effort”. Why is that? Because these AI tools scour the internet and display the results with the highest rankings.

A high ranking does not always equate to the truth. Therefore, the necessary efforts should focus on human research.

You cannot rely on an LLM to deliver the truth, because it will reproduce everything that some intelligence officer has secretly edited on Wikipedia, or that has been allowed by the censors on Reddit, or that has not been allowed by the gatekeepers at Google and their unelected globalist partners at the UN.

Nevertheless, Schwab places his trust in AI and the big tech companies that they will provide us with all the knowledge we need.

In this scenario, universities are obsolete, and according to the WEF founder, higher education should focus more on teaching how to use new technologies rather than teaching actual knowledge.

“You don’t have to go to university anymore. For any question about knowledge, you can turn to Claude, ChatGPT, or whatever. Knowledge is all around us and free.” – Klaus Schwab, The Intelligent Age and the Responsibility of African Leadership, May 2026

So instead of striving for knowledge, you just have to call the big tech companies and they’ll give you the right answers for free?

Not if OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has anything to say about it!

In March, Altman explained that, having circumvented all copyright and intellectual property infringements by tapping all of humanity’s collective knowledge from the internet, he now wanted to sell it back to us once it had been consumed.

“We envision a future where intelligence is a utility service like electricity or water, and people obtain it from us via a meter.” – Sam Altman, BlackRock US Infrastructure Summit, March 2026

If intelligence were to become a service billed according to consumption, then the age of intelligence would only benefit those who can afford it.

Everything Schwab said was reserved for the elite. The poor would remain not only poor, but also ignorant.

And it all begins with education.

According to Schwab, we should abandon our pursuit of knowledge. Instead, we should focus on our “abilities”.

And what kind of skills are we talking about?

The ability to interact with a chatbot, and one should return to university every year to receive their updated certificate, as if it were a subscription that commits one to AI and Big Tech companies for life.

Schwab calls this a transition from “learning for life to lifelong learning”.

“Of course, you need training, you need education, but it should primarily be training in skills and less in knowledge.” – Klaus Schwab, The Intelligent Age and the Responsibility of African Leadership, May 2026

Since only the elite have access to on-demand information and lifelong learning, Schwab acknowledged that the WEF has long been criticized as elitist.

However, he never really denied being an elitist.

Instead, he reaffirmed the idea that “we are part of a global community,” which contradicts sovereign states and differing cultural values that are not shared by a “global community.”

“Of course, the forum has often been criticized as elitist […] I have very often been called an elitist globalist or something similar. Globalization should not be a philosophy or ideology. We are part of a global community. We are interdependent worldwide.” – Klaus Schwab, The Age of Intelligence and the Responsibility of African Leadership, May 2026

When Schwab spoke about the WEF, he explained that he created it in 1971 to contradict Nobel laureate and economist Milton Friedman, who had said that the job of businesses was to do business.

Schwab rejected this and developed the concept of “stakeholdership” to contrast with “shareholdership”, explaining that the entire focus of the WEF was to be a platform for promoting stakeholder capitalism.

“I was fascinated by Milton Friedman […] and he had written an editorial in the New York Times in which he said: ‘The job of business is business, and everything that is social is left to government to regulate.’

I came to the conclusion: ‘No! A company is not just an economic entity; it is part of society […]’

That is why I founded the World Economic Forum – as a platform to further develop this idea of stakeholder capitalism.” – Klaus Schwab, The Intelligent Age and the Responsibility of African Leadership, May 2026

Stakeholder capitalism is only possible through public-private partnerships – the fusion of corporations and the state. The stakeholders are governments, corporations, and civil society – the latter consisting of academics, NGOs, and unelected globalist think tanks.

It is dominated by the so-called expert and technocratic classes, who bribe the state to grant them more power and influence, while the state delegates to the experts and technocrats what it cannot legally do.

However, if you are looking for well-documented and thoroughly cited research on Klaus Schwab and the origins of the WEF, you will find exactly what you need in investigative journalist Johnny Vedmore and his article Dr. Klaus Schwab; or how the CFR taught me to stop worrying and to love the bomb.

Vedmore begins his investigation with the subheading: “The World Economic Forum was not simply the idea of Klaus Schwab, but actually originated from a CIA-funded Harvard program under the direction of Henry Kissinger and was pushed to realization by John Kenneth Galbraith and the ‘real’ Dr. Strangelove, Herman Kahn.”

After stepping down from the WEF last year, the architect of the Great Reset founded the Schwab Academy as a platform to accompany his book series on the so-called intelligent age.

The entire livestream of Klaus Schwab at the University of Johannesburg can be found on the Schwab Academy YouTube channel below.

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June 16, 2026

 

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