#ai-job-displacement

#ai-job-displacement

Two decades ago, I took my liberal arts degree(s) and got an entry-level job at a solid healthcare company and have moved up to the point where I think I've reached my max potential. I am punching above my weight in my current role. I believe that AI will kill my role in the next 12 months, and I do not believe my age and skillset will make me competitive in today's job market.

In today's episode, our host Zoë Schiffer is joined by WIRED's senior politics editor Leah Feiger to run through five of this week's best stories-from how AI is eliminating entry level jobs to why a secretive Democrat group is funding high-profile influencers. Then, Zoë and Leah dive into the scoop that AI researchers recently recruited to Meta Superintelligence Labs are already leaving-with some heading back to OpenAI.

In a paper released Tuesday, Brynjolfsson and two other Stanford researchers gave the AI and work discourse some much-needed clarity. Using a massive and recent trove of data, they showed that 22- to 25-year-olds in fields that are particularly exposed to AI are, indeed, having a harder time getting work than their older or less exposed counterparts. The paper dubs this cohort the "canaries in the coal mine" - potential harbingers of larger impacts if AI tools continue to improve.

"There's definitely evidence that AI is beginning to have a big effect," economist and Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson told Axios.

My belief is it is 100% crap. The best at any job will remain. The best software developer, the one that really knows architecture, knows technology, and so on will stay—for a while.

AI can write code and crunch numbers, but it can't comfort a patient or make a call in a crisis. The safest jobs right now are the most human ones. The fastest-growing work today depends on care, judgment, and presence, which are all things AI still can't do.

"Artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the US," Farley said. That's why, he said, more people are looking to the skilled trades.

"While the fears of a total job apocalypse haven't yet been realized, data suggests tech companies are increasingly prioritizing AI, impacting hiring for recent graduates."