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CNN
2 days ago
- Business
- CNN
Worried AI is coming for your job? Here are 3 tips
Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn, says AI is already coming for entry-level professional jobs. Raman says there are three things every college grad and new worker should know as AI becomes more advanced.
CNN
2 days ago
- Business
- CNN
Worried AI is coming for your job? Here are 3 tips
Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn, says AI is already coming for entry-level professional jobs. Raman says there are three things every college grad and new worker should know as AI becomes more advanced.
CNN
2 days ago
- Business
- CNN
Worried AI is coming for your job? Here are 3 tips
Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn, says AI is already coming for entry-level professional jobs. Raman says there are three things every college grad and new worker should know as AI becomes more advanced.
Entrepreneur
5 days ago
- Business
- Entrepreneur
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: AI Agents Are Like Junior Employees
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that companies are using AI agents (programs that run autonomously to perform complex tasks) as if they were junior employees. "You hear people that talk about their job now is to assign work to a bunch of [AI] agents, look at the quality, figure out how it fits together, give feedback," Altman said on Monday during the keynote conversation at the Snowflake Summit 2025, per Business Insider. "It sounds a lot like how they work with a team of still relatively junior employees." Related: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Isn't Worried About AI Taking Over Jobs — Here's Why Meanwhile, a report last month from venture capital firm SignalFire found that AI has already led to a 25% decrease in entry-level hires from 2023 to 2024 at Meta, Microsoft, and Google. SignalFire's head of research, Asher Bantock, told TechCrunch that AI was to blame for the decline in entry-level tech roles, as it takes over more routine tasks typically carried out by junior employees. At consulting firm McKinsey, AI is performing tasks usually reserved for junior employees, like creating PowerPoint presentations and drafting proposals. McKinsey wrote in July 2024 that AI could replace up to 375 million jobs by 2030. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Photo byOther industry leaders have bold predictions about how quickly AI will take over entry-level jobs. Dario Amodei, 42, the CEO of the $61.5 billion company Anthropic, told Axios last week that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next one to five years, causing unemployment to rise as high as 20%. "It sounds crazy, and people just don't believe it," Amodei told Axios. Related: 'I Do Have a Fair Amount of Concern.' The CEO of $61 Billion Anthropic Says AI Will Take Over a Crucial Part of Software Engineers' Jobs Within a Year
Forbes
27-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How AI Affects The Socioeconomic Order Of The Workplace
It is becoming increasingly evident that AI could – and already has started to – upend entry level jobs and the young workers who fought so hard to get them to start their careers. In the long run, we could see AI propelling more well-situated employees, while impeding the progress of those not so well positioned. That was considered an interesting theory – until it turned out to be reality. Beginner programmers and coders, data analysts, junior paralegals, retail sales associates, content writers, copy editors, graphic artists, and grant writers are among the many who will deal with this reality – and who should be joined and supported by the senior people who structure the organizations they all work for. From my vantage point as an independent career coach and job market observer, organizations build bench strength and create succession plans by developing talent. This starts with the new employees who have been hired not for their experience (none) or network (scant), but for their skills and potential. The idea was to develop those entry-level skills through usage, equipping these employees to move upward. But how are we to develop these skills in our new employees if we increasingly give assignments that use them to AI, which is getting better at these skills faster than our employees can? Do you see the problem? A year ago, I wrote a prescient column on this: 'AI's First Unintended Consequence – And It's Huge.' At the time, it was limited to communication and team building, but now it's ubiquitous. The urgency of this threat cannot be overstated. It's the fire burning at the other end of the oil drilling rig, And who's creating this conflict? The very executives who have been pulling their hair out in quest of skilled and trainable employees are falling all over themselves, attempting to be ahead of the AI game. Go figure. The monster they're creating is the looming threat of an empty bench when they're addressing their succession plans. The tacit approval of AI doing what we should be developing our new employees to do, insidiously undermines the quest for skills development, and we continue to see it as progress. And the The problem and the solution So that's the problem. Who gets affected and in what way(s)? And what's the fix? One doesn't need much data to arrive at these answers. If the lower-level tasks are now in AI's purview, then the young employees with already developed skills will find themselves up the ladder. These workers correlate with degrees from elite schools or prior experience: privileged backgrounds, in other words. This is not a level playing field and the divide will only widen. The fix should be obvious. Employers, in an earnest effort to build not only strong organizations, but strong employees, must counterintuitively look at this issue not in AI terms, but through a staff and talent development lens, reverting to the tedious but rewarding job of building the skills which will, in turn, lay the foundation for others. Right now, though, we are building castles in the air.
