Creative types have long endured an uncertain future when it comes to career stability and salary prospects. But in a new age of automation and job disruption, all that could be set to change.

That’s according to Yuval Harari, the Israeli historian whose study of societal trends has won him esteemed fans, from Barack Obama to Bill Gates.

Speaking to CNBC, Harari weighed in on the future of the workforce debate, saying he was certain that new technologies would lead to job losses in the near-term. He predicted, however, that careers with a creative aspect would be least likely to be affected by cuts or imitation by robots — for now, at least.

“It is quite certain that a lot jobs will disappear, especially the more monotonous or repetitive ones,” Harari told CNBC’s earlier this month at DBS’ Asian Insights Conference 2018.

“Jobs that require a higher degree of creativity will be safer — at least in the short term,” he said.