As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI | Connor Myers
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While AI is certainly taking over entry-level jobs, it will also create new jobs that only humans can do. The most important among these new careers will be AI supervisors, such as lawyers to review AI-generated contracts and teachers to review and deploy AI-generated curricula. Humans will always be needed no matter how tech-heavy our jobs become.
This is about more than just new college graduates. AI companies are now saying the quiet part out loud: their products are going to replace most desk jobs, whether you're a young new hire or have been at the company for decades. Those who claim AI will bring about new jobs are either lying, trying to make people feel better, or both. If companies can increase output without spending money on workers, they will certainly do it.
There is a 50% chance that 14.1% of current workers will be replaced by AI systems performing end-to-end labor in 2030, according to the Metaculus prediction community.