Katelyn Watterson, a former intern at a New York beauty brand, later ran marketing agency Fifty Six and mentored up to eight interns. AI reduced the value of intern work by completing delegated tasks faster and increasing the time needed to track unfinished work and teach basics. A Drexel University annual survey shows internship programme scaling back is rising while expansion is declining. Tech internship postings dropped 30% since 2023, and only 7% of new hires at major tech companies are recent graduates, down from 9.3% in 2023. Internships declined 11% year on year as AI handles routine, low-stakes tasks like data entry, scheduling, first-draft writing, and basic analysis. The cost logic favors AI because interns require supervision and management overhead, while AI primarily uses tokens. Salesforce reduced support staff from 9,000 to 5,000 after deploying AI agents, and Detroit automakers eliminated 20,000 white-collar jobs while posting AI roles.
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