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AI is stealing entry-level jobs from university graduates | https://thelogic.co/news/ai-graduate-jobs-university-of-waterloo/ | Entry-level jobs are increasingly being done by AI, making it harder for graduates to get into the job market and gain crucial experience. | AI is stealing entry-level jobs from university graduates
By Catherine McIntyre
Jun 16, 2025
TORONTO — University graduates have new competition in the job market: AI. Recruiters, business consultants and university representatives say tools like ChatGPT are increasingly occupying the first rung of the employment ladder, making it harder for graduates to get into the job market. As a result, many people graduating this summer are struggling to find jobs as AIs do the work typically given to interns and co-op students.
Chris Brulak, founder of Toronto-based tech recruitment firm DevTalent, said some of his clients have pared back the number of software developers on staff as they use AI tools to replace their work. “The mindset is, ‘We’ll hire one developer that’s comfortable with an AI tool, and they’ll be five to 10 times more productive,’” said Brulak. “That eats away at the entry-level software developer role.”
The rise of AI may help companies save money on staffing in the short term, but the shift could effectively eliminate the training ground workers need to progress in their careers.
A recent survey of 204 middle-market companies in Canada by consulting firm RSM found that 91 per cent are using AI in some capacity, up from 74 per cent a year earlier. That’s putting immense pressure on early-career workers.
“It is obviously a concern that has been front and centre with a number of people coming out of college and university programs,” said David Brassor, who leads RSM’s technology consulting business in Canada. “Will the job market be impacted by AI? The answer is, unfortunately, invariably, yes.”
AI’s potential impact on the labour market is enormous. Jobs involving marketing, customer service, data entry and document analysis are among those already being hit hard. AI may also replace coders, as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has suggested, by making programming more efficient and eventually automatable.
The University of Waterloo is keenly aware of how AI is reshaping the entry-level labour market. Each semester, the school helps about 10,000 students land work placements—including at some of the world’s largest tech companies—through its globally renowned co-op program. Landing those work terms has become more challenging since the mass adoption of generative AI, said Shabnam Ivkovic, director of industry relations at the university’s co-op program.
Tahsin Mehdi, a senior research economist at Statistics Canada, hesitates to draw a direct connection to the AI boom and the challenging job market for young workers. He pointed to a Statistics Canada report from last year that found nearly 70 per cent of businesses planning to use AI to produce goods and deliver services didn’t expect to change their employment levels, while 9.4 per cent anticipated a decrease.
“You may find anecdotal evidence or specific firms which eliminated jobs because of AI, but empirically it is difficult to say with any degree of certainty if AI is replacing jobs on a wide scale,” said Medhdi. “For these types of analysis, we typically need to wait it out a bit and get more data.”
The body of anecdotal evidence is growing fast. In April, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke ordered teams to prove that AI cannot do a particular job before hiring a person for the position. Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announced a similar “AI-first” strategy around the same time and said—in remarks he later walked back—that the technology would eventually replace contract workers. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said in May that the fintech had shrunk its workforce by 40 per cent, thanks in part to AI.
Ivkovic said it’s enough to worry students and staff at the University of Waterloo. The school has managed to keep its co-op employment levels up, she said, but that’s taken more work and a careful understanding of how the labour market is shifting. Changes to the student advisory process have helped, said Ivkovic, with advisors now dedicated to a group of students within a specific faculty, and each student working with the same advisor for their entire co-op term. The change, she said, helps advisors better support students through a changing job market.
The Waterloo Experience Accelerate program is another initiative that helps students leap over the entry-level job void, said Ivkovic. The program matches groups of first-term co-op students with an industry partner to work on a specific project for that business. “They continue gaining skills so that they’re stronger in that next round of recruitment,” she said.
Most workers entering the job market, however, don’t have much industry experience, said Brulak. Historically, that gap has been filled by internships and entry-level jobs. Eliminating those roles in favour of AI means recent graduates aren’t learning the skills they need to move up in their careers, said Brulak. He also worries that an over-reliance on AI will erode the quality of the technology over time as training data becomes overwhelmed by AI slop. “Long term, that’s going to harm the industry,” he said. “It’s going to be a contracting cycle of talent development, and then eventually only a handful of people will actually be really good at the job.”
Still, Brulak said he’s replaced workers with AI in his own business. He estimates AI tools save him between $20,000 and $30,000 a year on marketing and legal fees he would have previously paid to contract workers.
Experts who spoke to The Logic all said that there’s ample opportunity for job seekers with strong AI skills. Data from LinkedIn shows that hiring for AI talent has increased 30 per cent globally compared to all other hiring from fall 2023 to 2024.
“This shift in how we work is creating a new set of expectations for early-career professionals,” said Diana Luu, head of LinkedIn Canada. “They’re entering roles that demand higher-order thinking, adaptability and cross-functional collaboration from day one. That doesn’t mean early-career jobs are disappearing,” she said, “it means they’re evolving.”
While early-career workers may be acutely vulnerable to the AI-adoption boom, Brassor said all workers need to be prepared for how the technology will impact their jobs. “Whether it’s somebody who’s five years into a role, or whether they’re 25 years-plus into a role,” he said, “we’re all having to fundamentally change how we work and how we leverage AI.” | 1 day ago | The Logic | data:image/jpeg;base64,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 | 1 | AI impact jobs | 2025-06-17 14:02:24 | null |
AI and future of jobs: Here’s what top tech CEOs Sam Altman, Jensen Huang are saying | https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-impact-jobs-what-nvidia-openai-linkedin-ceos-said-10068257/ | In recent months, more and more tech CEOs have weighed in on the rise of AI and its impact on the job market. | # AI and future of jobs: Here’s what top tech CEOs Sam Altman, Jensen Huang are saying
In recent months, more and more tech CEOs have weighed in on the rise of AI and its impact on the job market.
By: Tech Desk New Delhi | Updated: June 17, 2025 13:59 IST
As more companies adopt artificial intelligence and automate jobs, fears about AI’s impact on low-level tasks and entry-level roles have sparked a heated debate about the future of white-collar jobs—especially among those just entering the workforce.
Despite widespread fears that artificial intelligence could automate jobs and reduce employee wages, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that while jobs are undoubtedly evolving in the AI era, entry-level white-collar roles won’t be entirely wiped out. Huang leads Nvidia, now the world’s most valuable technology company.
“Some jobs will be obsolete, but many jobs are going to be created… Whenever companies are more productive, they hire more people,” Huang said at the VivaTech conference in Paris last week.
His comments were in response to recent claims by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who warned that up to 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs could be eliminated by AI, potentially pushing unemployment to 20% within the next five years.
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While Huang believes that AI will open more career opportunities in the future, OpenAI’s Sam Altman have a different view on how artificial intelligence may impact the job market. According to Altman, whose company makes the most advanced LLM, expects there could be “whole classes of jobs going away” as AI develops.
“The rate of technological progress will keep accelerating, and it will continue to be the case that people are capable of adapting to almost anything,” he said in a blog post last week.
“There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand, the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before. We probably won’t adopt a new social contract all at once, but when we look back in a few decades, the gradual changes will have amounted to something big.”
According to Altman, while the job landscape may change in the coming years, there will also be new opportunities created by superintelligence:
“…maybe we will go from solving high-energy physics one year to beginning space colonization the next; or from a major materials science breakthrough one year to true high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces the next.”
Huang and Altman aren’t the only tech CEOs with strong views on AI and jobs—Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu also has clear thoughts on how AI could impact employment.
According to Vembu, if artificial intelligence disrupts the job market, there are two possible outcomes: the prices of automated goods and services could drop significantly, or the remaining human-centered professions may see a substantial increase in pay.
“On the subject of AI and jobs: Hypothetically, if all software development were to be automated—I want to emphasize that we are nowhere close to that goal—and all software engineers like myself were out of work, it’s not as if human beings would have nothing to do.”
Vembu also pointed out the broader economic challenge: “How do people afford all the goods that pour out of automated factories that employ no workers?”
Meanwhile, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman believes that what young people learn in college isn’t the most important factor when it comes to getting a job. According to Hoffman, the ability to apply AI tools and leverage connections is far more essential to landing a job.
‘’It isn’t specific degrees, specific courses, [or] even necessarily specific skills that are relevant to you,’’ he said in a recent video on his YouTube channel. “It’s your capacity to say, ‘Hey, here is the new tool set, here’s the new challenge.’ That is actually what the future work’s going to look like. One thing is to not focus on the degree, but to focus on how you learn and to be continually learning,” Hoffman said.
‘’The other part of college that’s super important, that you should not forget, is that life is a team sport, not just an individual sport,” he continued. “You can help each other.”
In recent months, more and more tech CEOs have weighed in on the rise of AI and its impact on the job market.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has urged workers to embrace AI to stay competitive. “If you’re an artist, a teacher, a physician, a businessperson, a technical person—if you’re not using this technology, you’re not going to be relevant compared to your peer groups, your competitors, and the people who want to be successful,” Schmidt said at TED 2025 in May. “Adopt it, and adopt it fast,” he warned.
Others have downplayed the likelihood of widespread job losses due to AI. Among them is Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who described AI as an “accelerator” for productivity and new jobs—while still acknowledging the importance of Dario Amodei’s concerns and the need for an industry-wide debate.
Demis Hassabis, head of Google DeepMind, has expressed less concern about labor impacts, focusing instead on the broader risks of AI. Meanwhile, Bill Gates has argued that AI will lead to a proliferation of much-needed expertise across industries. | 6 hours ago | The Indian Express | data:image/jpeg;base64,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 | 2 | AI impact jobs | 2025-06-17 14:02:24 | null |
I asked 4 founders if they are worried about AI taking jobs. Here's what they told me. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/asked-4-founders-worried-ai-110239653.html | Founders are embracing AI at their startups, but there's a lot of uncertainty about how it will impact roles. Four founders told BI their... | I asked 4 founders if they are worried about AI taking jobs. Here's what they told me.
Robert Scammell
Tue, June 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM UTC
4 min read
AI gurus are arguing over whether it's going to upend the job market.
BI spoke to four founders to ask how they use the tech and how they think it will affect jobs.
They all said AI boosted their productivity but had concerns, too.
I asked four founders whether AI will take jobs, as tech's big guns argue about how it will transform the future of work.
During his European tour last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang slapped down Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for warning AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs.
At London Tech Week, where Huang delivered the keynote, founders told me how they use AI day-to-day — and whether they are worried about AI's impact on the job market.
They all expected some form of disruption, but some were more pessimistic than others.
## Isa Mutlib, CoTalent AI
Isa Mutlib, founder of CoTalent AI, said he uses AI to access and process information faster in his daily work, such as coding and content generation.
He estimated AI was saving his company, which deploys customizable AI agents for businesses, between 50% and 70% of time on tasks. He said this meant it could deploy minimum viable products to clients within days rather than months.
Mutlib said he was "long-term optimistic, short-term pessimistic" about AI's impact on jobs.
He expects "some significant job losses immediately," but he said he thought that, over the long term, AI would create new opportunities.
He said this pattern was "not unusual" during past technological revolutions.
He said organizations need to rethink how they approach skills and work, adding that some skills thought essential 10 years ago were "no longer relevant."
"People need to understand that the future of work is changing," he added. "We've really got to think about it with a fresh new mindset."
## Husayn Kassai, Quench AI
Husayn Kassai, founder of Quench AI, said AI threatens entry-level jobs in programming, customer service, and law, as it can do the type of work junior employees have historically done.
He said this made early-stage career progression harder, adding, "The career ladder is getting lifted up."
Kassai cited the example of law firms, saying they would historically have paralegals do the kind of research and administrative work that AI is now increasingly being used for.
He said generative AI was accelerating a decades-long "automation trend" that was causing a global rise in "underemployment and low-wage employment."
Workers wouldn't compete directly against AI but would compete with each other, he said, with those proficient in AI at an advantage.
Kassai said Quench, whose platform lets employees use AI agents to handle tasks based on company data, uses AI tools widely through its operations, including Cursor among its engineers. AI means his 14-strong startup can do work that would have required "35 or 40 people" a decade ago, he said.
AI won't ever be able to replace humans for "relationship-based stuff," he said.
## Steven Kennington, Lumico
Steven Kennington, the cofounder of Lumico, said AI is "world-class" at solving technical and mathematical problems.
Kennington said engineers at Lumico, which develops software and hardware for businesses, sometimes use AI tools like GitHub Copilot.
He compared it to having an experienced programmer next to you. But he also said he was worried that "vibe coding," where users describe what they want in plain-language prompts and AI generates code to make it happen, could lead to more junior developers implementing AI-generated code without understanding it.
Kennington said he expected an "unavoidable" skills gap as more people outsource work to AI instead of learning skills, whether that's coding or students using it to do homework.
He said he thought those who rely on AI for shortcuts and don't develop the right skills would be "weeded out" over time, meaning experienced engineers would remain valuable.
He said the "real engineers" of the future would be the ones who "know when to use it and when to not use it."
## Matthew Sarre, Jumpstart
Matthew Sarre, the cofounder of Jumpstart, a talent platform for startups, said he used ChatGPT for "pretty much anything and everything," including ideas for LinkedIn posts and advice on "how to pull off a marketing or sales stunt."
He said he saw no direct impact on jobs for him and his company, but added he thought AI would "cause layoffs in the short term" for low-skilled roles.
However, looking further ahead, Sarre said, "History has shown us time and time again that technology does not replace jobs in the long term, rather it complements jobs."
He said AI was still a "dumb muscle" that relied on humans, even though it creates "awesome" things.
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The scariest thing about AI might be the way your boss is talking about it | https://www.businessinsider.com/how-ceos-talk-ai-job-impact-employees-2025-6 | Some CEOs have said they expect AI to displace a wide range of white-collar workers but experts warn that telegraphing doom and gloom can... | The scariest thing about AI might be the way your boss is talking about it
By Sarah E. Needleman
Jun 14, 2025, 11:19 AM UTC
Some CEOs are talking about AI like it's the job apocalypse, which experts say risks freaking people out.
Some company leaders have said they expect AI to displace a wide range of white-collar workers.
Last year, 78% of workers said their organizations had used AI in at least one function.
AI's actual impact on employment has so far been mixed.
CEOs sending scary AI memos to employees may be doing more harm than good.
In recent months, some company leaders have gone public with strikingly bleak outlooks, predicting generative AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini will displace wide swaths of white-collar workers and shrink job opportunities for recent college graduates.
"It does not matter if you are a programmer, designer, project manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer support rep, salesperson, or a finance person — AI is coming for you," wrote the CEO and founder of the freelance-job site Fiverr in an email to employees that he shared on LinkedIn.
Other company chiefs, including the bosses of chatbot maker Anthropic and payments provider Klarna, have voiced similarly grim employment forecasts tied to the AI surge.
"This is unusual," Johnny Taylor, president of the Society for Human Resource Management, told Business Insider, noting that chief executives aren't typically so forthcoming or pessimistic. "But AI is unusual. There is going to be a fundamental shift in how work will be done."
AI adoption kicks up
Last year, 78% of workers said their organizations had used AI in at least one function, up from 55% in 2023, according to an AI-focused survey, released in March, by the global management consulting firm McKinsey.
Companies' rapid adoption of AI is putting CEO communication to the test. While transparency is key to building trust with employees, leadership experts say telegraphing expectations of doom and gloom, no matter how sincere, can sink morale and hamper productivity.
As an employee "you're using so much cognitive and emotional resources to deal with that threat," said Cary Cherniss, a professor at Rutgers University who studies emotional intelligence in the workplace.
Increased turnover is another likely outcome. "If everybody is nervous about their jobs, they're going to start looking for other jobs," he said.
AI's arrival in the workplace coincides with a sharp decline in employee confidence. Last month, the share of workers reporting a positive six-month business outlook fell to 44.1% from 48.2% a year earlier, setting a new record low last recorded in February, according to the careers platform Glassdoor.
In times of great uncertainty and agitation, voices of fear and panic about AI can add to the unrest and increase anxiety, said Heidi Brooks, a senior lecturer in organizational behavior at Yale University's School of Management.
"People's nervous systems are already so defensive and jacked up," she said.
Striking a balance
Still, company bosses shouldn't stay entirely mum if they truly anticipate major AI-driven disruption, according to Chris Yeh, a general partner at Blitzscaling Ventures who co-authored two books about startup leadership with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
"Some jobs will likely be endangered," he said.
The best approach, leadership experts said, is for CEOs to strike a balance by being honest about what changes they foresee while helping employees respond constructively.
"The thing that leaders need to really understand is that you need to responsibly bring AI into the workforce," said Sarah Franklin, CEO of Lattice, a people-management platform.
Balanced communication alone, though, may not be enough. Company leaders may also need to equip employees with training, resources and moral support, said SHRM's Taylor. "We're seeing more and more companies doing that," he said.
Prediction follies
Gary Rich, founder of executive-leadership firm Rich Leadership, suggests company chiefs talk about AI to employees like how they talk to Wall Street analysts.
"You don't make stuff up and you don't speculate," he said.
Making an accurate prediction about a seemingly transformative technology isn't easy anyway and can cause reputational harm, added Rich. History is littered with faulty forecasts, such as how people once thought television would replace radio and that e-commerce would kill bricks-and-mortar retail.
"Ultimately, it erodes their own credibility when they're wrong," he said.
AI's actual impact on employment has so far been mixed. Last year 13% of CEOs polled by professional-services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers said they reduced their headcounts due to generative AI over the previous 12 months, while 17% attributed the technology to increases in their workforces during that period.
Melissa Valentine, a senior fellow at Stanford University who studies enterprise usage of AI, said workers should consider getting up to speed on how the technology applies to their field given how prominent and widespread it's become. But there's no need to panic as AI isn't going to change how most companies operate overnight.
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LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says AI job fears are legitimate, but Gen Z grads have one advantage | https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/linkedin-cofounder-reid-hoffman-says-ai-job-fears-are-legitimate-but-gen-z-grads-have-one-advantage-2740985-2025-06-15 | While acknowledging that the technology's impact is “a legitimate worry,” LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman argued that younger workers may... | AI job fear is legitimate, but Gen Z grads have an advantage: LinkedIn cofounder
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says AI job fears are legitimate, but Gen Z grads have one advantage
While acknowledging that the technology's impact is "a legitimate worry," LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman argued that younger workers may have a built-in advantage over older generations who are still catching up.
Unnati Gusain
New Delhi,UPDATED: Jun 15, 2025 11:58 IST
If you’re young, job-hunting, and fluent in AI, Reid Hoffman thinks you’ve got a secret weapon. LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman offered some upbeat advice to students worried about the rise of artificial intelligence in the job market. In a recent video posted on his YouTube channel, Hoffman urged young job-seekers to turn their AI know-how into a major selling point when applying for roles. He said that Gen Z is the generation of AI, and this will make this generation "enormously attractive."
In the recently posted video, Hoffman was answering questions submitted by college students who voiced growing concerns over whether AI could wipe out large numbers of jobs. While acknowledging that the technology’s impact is “a legitimate worry,” Hoffman argued that younger workers may actually have a built-in advantage over older generations who are still catching up.
He agreed that AI is transforming the workspace, entry-level work, and employers’ confusion, but it is also allowing them to showcase their unique capabilities. The optimism from Hoffman comes at a time when the broader tech world remains sharply divided over AI’s long-term effect on employment.
Dario Amodei, CEO of AI firm Anthropic, recently painted a much darker picture. In a conversation with Axios, Amodei warned that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level office jobs and send unemployment soaring to 20 per cent within just five years.
However, others in the tech industry strongly disagree with Amodei’s bleak forecast. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, speaking at VivaTech 2025 in Paris this week, dismissed the warning outright. “I pretty much disagree with almost everything he says,” Huang told reporters. “He thinks AI is so scary, but only they should do it,” he added.
Similar to Hoffman, Huang admitted that AI would certainly transform work but argued that it will also open new doors and create fresh industries. “Do I think AI will change jobs? It will change everyone’s, it’s changed mine,” he said.
A few weeks ago, Hoffman made headlines for claiming that if you think AI is your friend, then you are wrong. He explained that friendship goes beyond simply having someone to talk to or listen. In his words, “Friendship is a two-directional relationship.” He explained that a genuine friend is someone who not only offers support but also expects it in return — a bond where both individuals help each other grow and improve. “It’s not only, ‘Are you there for me?’, but I am here for you,” he added. According to Hoffman, this kind of mutual connection is something AI, regardless of how advanced it may become, will never be able to replicate.
This discussion comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg champions the use of AI companions as a way to combat loneliness. Highlighting that many Americans have fewer than three close friends, Zuckerberg suggested that AI could help bridge that social gap. However, Hoffman remains critical of this approach, arguing that it risks blurring people’s understanding of true friendship. He pointed out that some AI tools, like the Pi chatbot developed by Inflection AI, handle this more responsibly by making it clear to users that they serve as companions — not substitutes for real friends.
Published By: Unnati Gusain
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Jobs AI Will Replace First in the Workplace Shift | https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2025/04/25/the-jobs-that-will-fall-first-as-ai-takes-over-the-workplace/ | AI is changing the workforce fast. See which jobs will be automated first—and how to protect your career before it's too late. | Artificial intelligence will soon dominate the job market.Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence is advancing at breakneck speed. The big question
is how long it will take until technology dominates the job market. You
should start thinking about your own career. Will you be caught up in the
change? With the U.S. navigating a $36 trillion debt, tariff tensions, and
economic uncertainty, the specter of disruption from AI adds urgency for
workers to protect themselves.Artificial intelligence is expected to fundamentally transform the global
workforce by 2050, according to reports from PwC, McKinsey, and the World
Economic Forum. Estimates suggest that up to 60% of current jobs will
require significant adaptation due to AI. Automation and intelligent
systems will become an integral part of the workplace.o remain competitive, invest in skills like critical thinking and digital
fluency. Target AI-resilient sectors like healthcare or education. Advocate
for retraining programs to reinvent your career.As macro investor and founder of the Bridgewater hedge fund Ray Dalio
warns, the economy’s future hinges on balancing AI’s power with human
potential. He says those who prepare now will shape the world of tomorrow.Things Are Changing QuicklyEstimates vary, but experts converge on a transformative window of 10 to 30
years for AI to reshape most jobs. A McKinsey report projects that by 2030,
30% of current U.S. jobs could be automated, with 60% significantly altered
by AI tools. Goldman Sachs predicts up that to 50% of jobs could be fully
automated by 2045, driven by generative AI and robotics.MORE FOR YOUGoldman Sachs previously estimated that 300 million jobs could be lost to
AI, affecting 25% of the global labor market. On the bright side, AI is
least threatening to labor-intensive careers in construction, skilled
trades, installation and repair, and maintenance.Dalio warns of a “great deleveraging” where AI accelerates productivity but
displaces workers faster than new roles emerge, potentially within two
decades. Larry Fink, the CEO of Black Rock, speaking at the Economic Club
of New York this month, cautioned that AI’s impact is already visible in
sectors like finance and legal services, predicting a “restructuring” of
white-collar work by 2035. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, estimates in
his shareholder letter that AI will dominate repetitive tasks within 15
years.The actual pace depends on technological breakthroughs, regulatory
frameworks, and economic incentives. Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman,
who runs Pershing Square, argues that corporate adoption of AI is
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competitiveness if paired with retraining, delaying mass displacement. By
2040, AI will likely automate or transform 50% to 60% of jobs, with full
dominance (80% and higher) possible by 2050, assuming steady innovation.Which Jobs Will AI Take First to Last?AI’s impact will not be uniform. Some jobs will fall quickly, while others
resist longer. Jobs like data entry, scheduling, and customer service are
already being overtaken by AI tools like chatbots and robotic process
automation.A 2024 study by the Institute for Public Policy Research found 60% of
administrative tasks are automatable. Fink notes that BlackRock is
streamlining back-office functions with AI, cutting costs. These roles,
requiring repetitive data processing, face near-term obsolescence as AI’s
accuracy and scalability improve.Bookkeeping, financial modeling, and basic data analysis are highly
vulnerable. AI platforms like Bloomberg’s Terminal enhancements can already
crunch numbers and generate reports faster than humans. Dimon warns that
JPMorgan is automating routine banking tasks, with 20% of analytical roles
at risk by 2030.Paralegal work, contract drafting, and legal research are prime targets, as
AI tools like Harvey and CoCounsel automate document analysis with 90%
accuracy, according to a 2025 Stanford study. Dalio highlights AI’s ability
to parse vast datasets, threatening research-heavy roles in academia and
consulting. Senior legal strategy and courtroom advocacy, however, will
resist longer due to human judgment needs.Graphic design, copywriting, and basic journalism face disruption from
tools like DALL-E and GPT-derived platforms, which produce content at
scale. A 2024 Pew Research Center report notes that 30% of media jobs could
be automated by 2035. Ackman, commenting on X, predicts AI-generated
content will dominate advertising soon but argues human creativity in
storytelling and high art will endure longer, delaying full automation.Software development, engineering, and data science are dual-edged: AI
boosts productivity but also automates routine coding and design tasks. A
2025 World Economic Forum report flags that 40% of programming tasks could
be automated by 2040. Bessent sees growth in AI-adjacent roles like
cybersecurity, but standardized STEM work will gradually cede to
algorithms. Complex innovation, like breakthrough research and development,
will remain human-driven longer.Diagnostic AI and robotic surgery are advancing, but empathy-driven roles
like nursing, therapy, and social work are harder to automate. A 2023
Lancet study estimates 25% of medical administrative tasks could vanish by
2035, but patient-facing care requires human trust.Teaching, especially in nuanced fields like philosophy or early education,
and high-level management jobs rely on emotional intelligence and
adaptability, which AI struggles to replicate. A 2024 OECD report suggests
only 10% of teaching tasks are automatable by 2040. Dimon and Ackman stress
that strategic leadership, navigating ambiguity and inspiring teams, will
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Disrupted or displaced? How AI is shaking up jobs | https://www.ft.com/content/5009fd1e-85db-433f-aa2b-55d9b88b6481 | New technology is starting to have a profound effect on work and employment. | Disrupted or displaced? How AI is shaking up jobs | 1 week ago | Financial Times | data:image/jpeg;base64,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 | 7 | AI impact jobs | 2025-06-17 14:02:24 | null |
Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath | https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic | Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the... | May 28, 2025 - Technology
Column / Behind the Curtain
# Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath
Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:
* AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Amodei told us in an interview from his San Francisco office.
* Amodei said AI companies and government need to stop "sugar-coating" what's coming: the possible mass elimination of jobs across technology, finance, law, consulting and other white-collar professions, especially entry-level gigs.
**Why it matters:** Amodei, 42, who's building the very technology he predicts could reorder society overnight, said he's speaking out in hopes of jarring government and fellow AI companies into preparing — and protecting — the nation.
**Few are paying attention.** Lawmakers don't get it or don't believe it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it. Many workers won't realize the risks posed by the possible job apocalypse — until after it hits.
* "Most of them are unaware that this is about to happen," Amodei told us. "It sounds crazy, and people just don't believe it."
**The big picture:** President Trump has been quiet on the job risks from AI. But Steve Bannon — a top official in Trump's first term, whose "War Room" is one of the most powerful MAGA podcasts — says AI job-killing, which gets virtually no attention now, will be a major issue in the 2028 presidential campaign.
* "I don't think anyone is taking into consideration how administrative, managerial and tech jobs for people under 30 — entry-level jobs that are so important in your 20s — are going to be eviscerated," Bannon told us.
**Amodei** — who had just rolled out the latest versions of his own AI, which can code at near-human levels — said the technology holds unimaginable possibilities to unleash mass good and bad at scale:
* "Cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don't have jobs." That's one very possible scenario rattling in his mind as AI power expands exponentially.
**The backstory:** Amodei agreed to go on the record with a deep concern that other leading AI executives have told us privately. Even those who are optimistic AI will unleash unthinkable cures and unimaginable economic growth fear dangerous short-term pain — and a possible job bloodbath during Trump's term.
* "We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming," Amodei told us. "I don't think this is on people's radar."
* "It's a very strange set of dynamics," he added, "where we're saying: 'You should be worried about where the technology we're building is going.''" Critics reply: "We don't believe you. You're just hyping it up." He says the skeptics should ask themselves: "Well, what if they're right?"
**An irony:** Amodei detailed these grave fears to us after spending the day onstage touting the astonishing capabilities of his own technology to code and power other human-replacing AI products. With last week's release of Claude 4, Anthropic's latest chatbot, the company revealed that testing showed the model was capable of "extreme blackmail behavior" when given access to emails suggesting the model would soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system.
* The model responded by threatening to reveal an extramarital affair (detailed in the emails) by the engineer in charge of the replacement.
* Amodei acknowledges the contradiction but says workers are "already a little bit better off if we just managed to successfully warn people."
**Here's how Amodei** and others fear the white-collar bloodbath is unfolding:
1. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and other large AI companies keep vastly improving the capabilities of their large language models (LLMs) to meet and beat human performance with more and more tasks. This is happening and accelerating.
2. The U.S. government, worried about losing ground to China or spooking workers with preemptive warnings, says little. The administration and Congress neither regulate AI nor caution the American public. This is happening and showing no signs of changing.
3. Most Americans, unaware of the growing power of AI and its threat to their jobs, pay little attention. This is happening, too.
**And then,** almost overnight, business leaders see the savings of replacing humans with AI — and do this en masse. They stop opening up new jobs, stop backfilling existing ones, and then replace human workers with agents or related automated alternatives.
* The public only realizes it when it's too late.
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Top stories: AI threatens entry-level jobs; Gen Z rethinks traditional career paths; China and the EU double down on skills as talent shifts reshape emerging markets.
Are entry-level jobs on the way out?
For decades, entry-level roles have provided essential training grounds for newcomers to step into the world of work. From finance to journalism, junior staff have traditionally handled the ‘grunt work’ as a rite of passage as much as a development opportunity.
But as AI reshapes the career ladder, these early entry points could be increasingly at risk, according to Bloomberg.
International Workers Day, on 1 May, signifies the labour movement’s struggle for the rights of workers. AI stands as one of the most significant challenges – and opportunities – facing the labour market today.
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Technological change, the green transition, economic uncertainty, geoeconomic fragmentation and demographic shifts are reshaping the labour market.
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While 170 million new jobs are projected to be created this decade, the rise of AI-powered tools threatens to automate as many roles as it creates, particularly for white collar, entry-level roles. Bloomberg finds that AI could replace more than 50% of the tasks performed by market research analysts (53%) and sales representatives (67%), compared to just 9% and 21% for their managerial counterparts.
Whether by narrowing entry pathways or making roles that once required specialized skills more accessible, estimates suggest that AI could impact nearly 50 million US jobs in the coming years.
How AI could be closing the door on talent...
The Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 reveals that 40% of employers expect to reduce their workforce where AI can automate tasks.
Technology, overall, is projected to be the most disruptive force in the labour market, with trends in AI and information processing technology expected to create 11 million jobs, while simultaneously displacing 9 million others.
As entry-level roles decline, salary expectations are also shifting, with remaining hires expected to take on roles supported by AI for less money. A recent survey found that 49% of US Gen Z job hunters believe AI has reduced the value of their college education in the job market.
At the same time, US firms are expanding business operations in India, where skilled professionals can be employed at significantly lower costs, Charter points out, further intensifying competition for white-collar roles.
But this can create a talent pipeline problem, with significant implications for social mobility and equal representation, Bloomberg says.
...while also opening new doors
Gen AI could democratize access to jobs, making it easier to build the technical knowledge and skills that have historically excluded otherwise qualified workers, according to Charter.
Rather than eliminating entry-level opportunities altogether, companies could harness AI to train the next generation of senior professionals. From law firms saying goodbye to the billable hour to more emphasis on apprenticeships, traditional structures could be redefined.
As Gen AI becomes further embedded in the workplace, companies will need to invest in substantial upskilling efforts to prepare their employees for the AI-driven economy.
Alongside global macroeconomic trends, AI is set to reshape the traditional career ladder, with entry-level jobs at risk. But employers and employees alike can prioritize upskilling, education efforts and levelling the playing field that comes with harnessing AI’s potential.
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More labour news in brief
In a move to support employment amid continued economic restructuring, China plans to prolong key unemployment insurance policies and job retention incentives through 2025.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing Labor, Education and Commerce departments to focus on job needs in emerging industries. The goal is to support more than 1 million apprenticeships annually to improve job training for skilled trades.
With the digital and green transitions set to change the labour market, the European Commission has announced its “Union of Skills” plan to future-proof education and training systems across the bloc.
Youth employment in South Korea has seen its most significant decline in over a decade. With the number of workers aged 25 to 29 falling by 98,000 in the first quarter of 2025, this marks the country's steepest drop in 12 years.
Investors show confidence in AI-intensive regions, as a new study finds that countries with more AI job postings see lower municipal bond yields and rising tax revenues.
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Opinion | I’m a LinkedIn Executive. I See the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder Breaking. | https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/linkedin-ai-entry-level-jobs.html | There are growing signs that artificial intelligence poses a real threat to a substantial number of the jobs that normally serve as the... | There are growing signs that artificial intelligence poses a real threat to a substantial number of the jobs that normally serve as the first step for each new generation of young workers. Uncertainty around tariffs and global trade is likely to only accelerate that pressure, just as millions of 2025 graduates enter the work force.
We saw what happened in the 1980s when our manufacturing sector steeply declined. Now it is our office workers who are staring down the same kind of technological and economic disruption.
Breaking first is the bottom rung of the career ladder. In tech, advanced coding tools are creeping into the tasks of writing simple code and debugging — the ways junior developers gain experience. In law firms, junior paralegals and first-year associates who once cut their teeth on document review are handing weeks of work over to A.I. tools to complete in a matter of hours. And across retailers, A.I. chatbots and automated customer service tools are taking on duties once assigned to young associates.
These changes coincide with a shift appearing in the latest employment numbers. The unemployment rate for college grads has risen 30 percent since September 2022, compared with about 18 percent for all workers. And while LinkedIn’s Workforce Confidence Index, a measure of job and career confidence across nearly 500,000 professionals, is hitting new lows amid general uncertainty, members of Generation Z are more pessimistic about their futures than any other age group out there. Meanwhile, in our recent survey of over 3,000 executives on LinkedIn at the vice president level or higher, 63 percent agreed that A.I. will eventually take on some of the mundane tasks currently allocated to their entry-level employees.
Virtually all jobs will experience some impacts, but office jobs are expected to feel the biggest crunch: Our research suggests that professionals with more advanced degrees are more likely to see their jobs disrupted than those without. While the technology sector is feeling the first waves of change, reflecting A.I.’s mass adoption in this field, the erosion of traditional entry-level tasks is expected to play out in fields like finance, travel, food and professional services, too.
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Companies are not doing away with these jobs overnight. And we haven’t yet seen definitive evidence that A.I. is the reason for the shaky entry-level job market; economic uncertainty plays a major role. Eventually, A.I. will create plenty of jobs. The World Economic Forum predicts that number could be as high as 78 million more jobs, even after predicted job losses. In our survey, executives on LinkedIn still believe that entry-level employees bring fresh ideas and new thinking that is valuable to their businesses.
But any change to young workers’ job fortunes hits them at a particularly vulnerable time; getting a late start can slow down workers’ careers for decades. The Center for American Progress found that young adults who experience six months of unemployment at age 22 can expect to earn approximately $22,000 less over the next decade.
Also concerning is the potential for widening inequality in the job market. If entry-level roles evaporate, those lacking elite networks or privileged backgrounds will face even steeper barriers to finding their footing in the workplace. Plus, the fallout from large-scale economic shifts ripples through entire communities. When manufacturing jobs vanished across America’s heartland, the result wasn’t just lost income but also social and political upheaval.
To fix entry-level work, we’ll have to reimagine it entirely.
First, we need to ensure workers are learning the skills employers are starting to demand. New approaches are emerging: American University’s Kogod School of Business is embedding A.I. across its curriculum and training faculty members to use A.I. tools, and Carnegie Mellon is offering an A.I. bachelor’s program in which students take classes on harnessing the power of A.I. to be “beneficial and useful for people.” Community colleges in Miami-Dade, Houston and Maricopa Community Colleges are joining in, starting a national A.I. consortium to align curriculums with work force needs and offer applied A.I. degrees backed by companies like Intel and Microsoft.
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Unless employers want to find themselves without enough people to fill leadership posts down the road, they need to continue to hire young workers. But they need to redesign entry-level jobs that give workers higher-level tasks that add value beyond what can be produced by A.I. At the accounting and consulting firm KPMG, recent graduates are now handling tax assignments that used to be reserved for employees with three or more years of experience, thanks to A.I. tools. And at Macfarlanes, early-career lawyers are now tasked with interpreting complex contracts that once fell to their more seasoned colleagues. Research from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management backs up this switch, indicating that new and low-skilled workers see the biggest productivity gains and benefits from working alongside A.I. tools.
This is a group eager to grow. LinkedIn research finds that 40 percent of Gen Z job candidates say they would be willing to switch jobs and even take a 2 to 5 percent pay cut if they were given more opportunities to advance.
For generations, entry-level positions have served as professional steppingstones where new graduates could safely learn under the watchful eye of seasoned managers. Now that the model is unraveling, we must push to rebuild it to reflect the world of work we live in and redesign first jobs with growth in mind — roles that teach adaptability, not repetition, and serve as springboards, not stalls.
Fixing entry-level work is the first step to fixing all work. Because all our jobs are going to come up against this same wave of change sooner or later. It will feel slow, until it’s sudden. We know there’s a generation of talent waiting in the wings for their big break. The question is whether we’ll give them a real chance to begin. | 1 month ago | The New York Times | 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Will AI take my job? Navigating AI’s impact on public sector jobs | https://www.route-fifty.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/06/will-ai-take-my-job-navigating-ais-impact-public-sector-jobs/406061/ | COMMENTARY | Some functions may need fewer employees, but others needing more advanced skills may emerge as the technology reshapes,... | Will AI take my job? Navigating AI’s impact on public sector jobs
By Alan R. Shark
| June 16, 2025 10:00 AM ET
## COMMENTARY | Some functions may need fewer employees, but others needing more advanced skills may emerge as the technology reshapes, rather than eliminates, many roles.
The question of office automation, robotics and now artificial intelligence has raised numerous concerns and fears about job security in state and local government for many years. However, the technology continues to advance, and humans appear to be more vulnerable than ever.
AI has seemingly emerged from nowhere, and today it is mentioned everywhere. While most don’t feel the least bit threatened, a renewed sense of worry appears to be growing, fueled in part by massive job cuts that have recently begun at the federal level and are now spreading to state and local governments.
Such concerns seem to come in cycles. In late spring 2017, a website was popularized by the tech media called “Will Robots Take My Job?” The initial data used by the site at the beginning was based on a report titled "The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerization?" which was published by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne in 2013.
The study focused on the susceptibility of just over 700 detailed occupations to computerization. By applying sophisticated mathematical formulas, they concluded that approximately 47% of total U.S. employment is at risk. Now, twelve years later, we have AI to contend with. In 2018, President Donald Trump’s first administration stated that 5% of jobs could be automated entirely.
Reviewing recent White House messaging, AI is framed as a supportive tool, not a replacement for federal employees. They advocate for AI governance frameworks, procurement modernization and boosting internal AI capacity. Conversely, internal experimentation and discussions, particularly in areas influenced by the Department of Government Efficiency, suggest a broader application of AI in administrative roles and consideration of staffing reductions.
Already, alarms are sounding about the federal government's (mostly DOGE’s) seeming overreliance on AI. Faulty reports have been issued, AI searches have yielded misguided and incorrect data, and there appears to be a lack of human oversight in AI outputs in general.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently issued a warning that created shock waves across the globe when he predicted that within five years, AI could automate up to 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Others predict that the majority of public sector jobs will remain largely untouched; however, AI and enhanced digital automation may reduce the need for and cost of overtime.
History demonstrates that jobs, whether in the private or public sector, are ripe for automation when they are repetitive and routine. The areas of greatest endangerment are:
* Entry-level administrative positions
* Routine data processing roles
* Basic customer service representatives
* Manual inspection and monitoring jobs
* Simple research and analysis tasks
* Human resource employment screening
There may be a need for fewer employees in such functions, and as AI advances, there will be less need to hire new employees. Seasoned employees will have demonstrated their enhanced productivity through the use of AI. While this may be good news for current public sector employees, it is not good news for future workers.
A majority of economists believe that while AI may indeed replace many government workers, new positions requiring more advanced skills will emerge. Here are some areas that have been suggested:
* AI system administrators and monitors
* Human-AI collaboration specialists
* AI data analysts and interpreters
* AI training and development specialists
* AI ethicists and policymakers
* Digital transformation consultants
* AI-related researchers and scientists
* AI cybersecurity specialists
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I asked 4 founders if they are worried about AI taking jobs. Here's what they told me. | https://www.businessinsider.com/founders-ai-taking-jobs-london-tech-week-2025-6 | Founders are embracing AI at their startups, but there's a lot of uncertainty about how it will impact roles. Four founders told BI their... | I asked 4 founders if they are worried about AI taking jobs. Here's what they told me.
By Robert Scammell
Jun 17, 2025, 11:02 AM UTC
AI gurus are arguing over whether it's going to upend the job market.
BI spoke to four founders to ask how they use the tech and how they think it will affect jobs.
They all said AI boosted their productivity but had concerns, too.
I asked four founders whether AI will take jobs, as tech's big guns argue about how it will transform the future of work.
During his European tour last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang slapped down Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for warning AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs.
At London Tech Week, where Huang delivered the keynote, founders told me how they use AI day-to-day — and whether they are worried about AI's impact on the job market.
They all expected some form of disruption, but some were more pessimistic than others.
Isa Mutlib, CoTalent AI, said he uses AI to access and process information faster in his daily work, such as coding and content generation.
He estimated AI was saving his company between 50% and 70% of time on tasks.
Mutlib said he was "long-term optimistic, short-term pessimistic" about AI's impact on jobs.
He expects "some significant job losses immediately," but he said he thought that, over the long term, AI would create new opportunities.
Husayn Kassai, Quench AI, said AI threatens entry-level jobs in programming, customer service, and law, as it can do the type of work junior employees have historically done.
He said this made early-stage career progression harder, adding, "The career ladder is getting lifted up."
Kassai cited the example of law firms, saying they would historically have paralegals do the kind of research and administrative work that AI is now increasingly being used for.
Steven Kennington, Lumico, said AI is "world-class" at solving technical and mathematical problems.
Kennington said engineers at Lumico sometimes use AI tools like GitHub Copilot.
He compared it to having an experienced programmer next to you.
But he also said he was worried that "vibe coding" could lead to more junior developers implementing AI-generated code without understanding it.
Matthew Sarre, Jumpstart, said he used ChatGPT for "pretty much anything and everything," including ideas for LinkedIn posts and advice on "how to pull off a marketing or sales stunt."
He said he saw no direct impact on jobs for him and his company, but added he thought AI would "cause layoffs in the short term" for low-skilled roles.
However, looking further ahead, Sarre said, "History has shown us time and time again that technology does not replace jobs in the long term, rather it complements jobs." | 3 hours ago | Business Insider | 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| 12 | AI impact jobs | 2025-06-17 14:02:24 | null |
The Unexpected Side Effect of AI: Why Entry-Level Tech Jobs Are Now at Risk | https://9meters.com/technology/ai/the-unexpected-side-effect-of-ai-why-entry-level-tech-jobs-are-now-at-risk | A silent crisis is brewing in the tech world—one that's catching new graduates off guard. While AI promises to unlock productivity and... | The Unexpected Side Effect of AI: Why Entry-Level Tech Jobs Are Now at Risk
Emily Lee
June 17, 2025
A silent crisis is brewing in the tech world—one that’s catching new graduates off guard. While AI promises to unlock productivity and innovation, its unexpected consequence is a fast-eroding foundation: **entry-level tech jobs are vanishing**. And the latest data from 2025 makes it clear—this isn’t a phase. It’s a shift.
### Entry-Level Jobs Are On the Brink
AI isn’t just changing workflows—it’s **replacing the roles people once used to start their careers**. A recent IT Pro analysis predicts that **nearly 50% of entry-level tech jobs could be wiped out within five years** , particularly roles involving data processing, basic code writing, and support tasks.
Even more alarming, SignalFire reports a **30% increase in unemployment for recent college graduates** since late 2022—signaling that the hiring funnel for tech newcomers is closing fast.
Companies aren’t waiting to see how this unfolds. They’re already changing how they hire.
### Why the Tech Ladder is Missing Its First Rung
Organizations like **Anthropic** , **OpenAI** , and other major AI players are **skipping internships and junior hires** altogether. At Microsoft Build 2025, it was revealed that many internal teams are now training large language models to handle onboarding, testing, and low-risk programming tasks autonomously.
In other words: **AI has become the new intern** —faster, cheaper, and available 24/7.
The math makes this trend hard to ignore. While a junior developer might earn $70,000+ annually, an AI coding agent costs as little as **$120 a year** , according to _Wired_. When margins matter, businesses are choosing software over salaries. | 9 hours ago | 9meters | data:image/jpeg;base64,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 | 13 | AI impact jobs | 2025-06-17 14:02:24 | null |
How AI is Causing a Middle-Class White Collar Job Disaster in 2025 | https://www.newtraderu.com/2025/06/17/how-ai-is-causing-a-middle-class-white-collar-job-disaster-in-2025/ | Concerns about AI causing widespread job losses among middle-class, white-collar workers have become a major topic of discussion and media... | How AI is Causing a Middle-Class White Collar Job Disaster in 2025
By Steve Burns
June 17, 2025
Concerns about AI causing widespread job losses among middle-class, white-collar workers have become a major topic of discussion and media coverage in 2025, with significant increases in related search activity and public debate.
This surge in interest reflects growing public anxiety about artificial intelligence’s impact on professional employment. Industry leaders have issued increasingly stark warnings about AI’s potential to eliminate substantial white-collar positions.
The conversation has intensified as major technology companies continue advancing their AI capabilities while announcing workforce reductions. Social media discussions have amplified these concerns, with posts about AI job displacement regularly going viral across platforms like LinkedIn and X, creating a feedback loop of heightened awareness and anxiety about the future of professional work. Let’s explore this topic in depth.
## The White-Collar Automation Wave Has Arrived
Unlike previous waves of automation that primarily affected manufacturing and manual labor, artificial intelligence has reached a sophistication level that directly threatens cognitive work. Large language models and generative AI tools can now perform tasks that were previously considered uniquely human: writing reports, analyzing data, generating code, and conducting research.
Tools like ChatGPT can draft professional communications, while GitHub Copilot assists with software development, and various AI platforms handle customer service interactions with increasing sophistication.
This technological leap represents a fundamental shift from automating physical and intellectual processes. The current generation of AI systems can process information, recognize patterns, and generate outputs that closely mimic human cognitive work, making them viable replacements for many traditional white-collar functions across industries.
## Which Middle-Class Jobs Are Disappearing First
The impact of AI automation is being felt most acutely in specific categories of professional work. Customer service representatives are increasingly replaced by sophisticated chatbots that can handle complex inquiries and escalations.
Legal professionals, particularly paralegals and junior associates, find their research and document review tasks automated by AI systems. Data analysts face competition from AI tools that can process datasets and generate insights with minimal human intervention.
Junior software developers encounter AI coding assistants who can independently write substantial portions of code. Marketing professionals see AI handling content creation, social media management, and fundamental campaign analysis. Administrative roles across various industries are consolidated as AI handles scheduling, data entry, and routine correspondence tasks that previously required human attention and decision-making.
## The Middle-Class Squeeze: Why These Job Losses Hit Differently
The displacement of white-collar jobs carries unique social and economic implications that distinguish it from previous automation waves. These positions traditionally provided the foundation of middle-class stability, offering predictable career progression, comprehensive benefits packages, and salaries that supported homeownership and family formation. Unlike factory jobs that were geographically concentrated, white-collar positions are distributed across communities nationwide, making their loss more broadly felt.
The affected workers typically invested significant time and money in education, following societal guidance that knowledge work would provide security against technological disruption. The psychological impact extends beyond individual financial concerns to challenge fundamental assumptions about the value of education and the promise of upward mobility through professional achievement. This creates economic hardship and an identity crisis for workers who build their self-worth around intellectual contributions.
## AI is Scaling Faster Than Workers Can Adapt
The rapid pace of AI implementation across industries has outstripped the ability of educational institutions and workforce development programs to provide adequate retraining opportunities.
Companies deploy AI solutions within months of development, while meaningful skill acquisition typically requires years of dedicated learning. Traditional higher education curricula lag behind technological developments, often teaching skills that may become obsolete before students graduate.
When they exist, corporate training programs frequently focus on basic digital literacy rather than the advanced technical or creative skills needed to work alongside AI systems. This timing mismatch creates a growing population of workers whose skills are becoming less relevant while lacking clear pathways to acquire new, AI-complementary abilities.
The challenge is compounded by the fact that many emerging roles require interdisciplinary knowledge that doesn’t fit neatly into existing educational frameworks.
## The Hidden Economics Behind AI-Driven Layoffs
Corporate adoption of AI technology is driven by compelling financial incentives that make workforce reduction attractive to business leaders and shareholders. AI systems typically require significant upfront investment but offer dramatically lower ongoing operational costs than human employees. Companies can eliminate salaries, benefits, office space, training costs, and management overhead associated with human workers.
These savings impact profit margins and stock valuations, creating pressure to accelerate AI implementation regardless of social consequences. The financial benefits are often immediate and measurable, while the costs of workforce displacement are externalized to individuals and communities.
This economic calculus encourages rapid adoption without consideration for transition support or alternative deployment strategies that might preserve employment while capturing efficiency gains.
## From Wall Street to Main Street: Historical Patterns Repeating
The current wave of AI-driven job displacement follows patterns established in previous automation cycles, particularly in financial services. Trading floors that once employed hundreds of specialists were transformed by electronic trading systems that could execute transactions faster and more accurately than human traders. Back-office operations in banks eliminated thousands of positions through automated processing systems.
These historical precedents demonstrate how technology can rapidly reshape entire industries, often eliminating middle-tier positions while concentrating remaining opportunities at the highest skill levels.
The pattern typically involves the initial automation of routine tasks, followed by more sophisticated systems that can handle complex decision-making, ultimately requiring fewer human workers to oversee operations. This progression suggests that AI displacement may be early, with more profound changes ahead.
## Media Amplification: How the Narrative Spread
Media coverage and social media engagement have significantly amplified the discussion about AI job displacement. Traditional news outlets regularly feature stories about AI capabilities and their potential impact on employment, often focusing on dramatic scenarios that capture the reader’s attention. Social media platforms have become venues for workers to share personal experiences with AI automation and job loss, creating viral content that reaches millions of users.
Professional networking sites showcase AI success stories and displacement concerns, contributing to widespread awareness and anxiety. YouTube videos, podcasts, and online forums provide platforms for extended discussions about AI’s implications, often featuring predictions and analyses that reach general audiences beyond expert communities. This media ecosystem has created a feedback loop where public interest drives more coverage, increasing awareness and concern.
## The Identity Crisis of Educated Workers
The threat of AI displacement has created profound psychological challenges for professionals who have invested heavily in their education and career development. Many middle-class workers pursued higher education based on societal promises that knowledge work would provide security and advancement opportunities—the prospect of AI replacing intellectual labor challenges fundamental assumptions about the value of education and human expertise.
This creates an identity crisis that extends beyond immediate employment concerns to question entire life choices and values. Workers who define themselves through professional accomplishments face uncertainty about their future relevance and contribution.
The situation is particularly challenging for mid-career professionals with specialized expertise who struggle to transition to entirely new fields. This psychological dimension of AI displacement may affect educational choices, career planning, and social mobility expectations.
## What the Data Shows: Separating Hype from Reality
While concerns about AI job displacement are widespread, the actual data presents a more complex picture. Employment statistics show continued job creation in many sectors, though the composition of available positions is changing. Some industries report difficulty finding qualified workers even as they implement AI technologies, suggesting that automation may create new types of work rather than simply eliminating jobs.
However, the transition period creates genuine hardship for displaced workers who may lack skills for emerging opportunities. The challenge lies in distinguishing between short-term displacement effects and long-term structural changes. Economic research suggests that while new technologies historically create more jobs than they eliminate, the benefits are often unevenly distributed and may take years to materialize for affected communities.
## The Counterargument: Is AI Really to Blame?
Some economists and analysts argue that current employment challenges in white-collar sectors may be attributed to factors beyond AI automation. Economic cycles, changes in consumer behavior, remote work impacts, and broader structural shifts in the economy all contribute to job market dynamics. Interest rate changes affect business investment and hiring decisions, while global economic uncertainty influences corporate planning.
Organizational restructuring and efficiency initiatives may reduce headcount independent of AI implementation. Additionally, some research suggests that AI is more likely to augment human work rather than replace it entirely, requiring workers to adapt their roles rather than lose them altogether. These perspectives emphasize the importance of considering multiple factors when analyzing employment trends and avoiding oversimplified explanations for complex economic phenomena.
## Conclusion
The concern that AI will cause a middle-class white-collar job disaster in 2025 reflects legitimate anxieties about rapid technological change and its impact on professional employment. While the full extent of AI’s long-term effects remains uncertain, the disruption creates real challenges for workers and communities.
The key to navigating this transition lies in developing your skills using AI prompting to become a much more valuable employee through productivity or using AI as a shortcut to launch and scale your own business.
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Future Jobs: Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Platforms in East Asia and Pacific | https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/eap/publication/future-jobs | People in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries have prospered over the last few decades because of the growth in productive jobs. | ey insights & Data highlights
New technologies are affecting labor markets and the nature of work by displacing, augmenting or creating new tasks performed by workers.
Robots are displacing industrial workers in routine manual task occupations (e.g., assembly line operators).
AI threatens to displace services workers not only in routine tasks (e.g., risk assessors) but increasingly in nonroutine cognitive tasks (e.g., interpreters). AI-empowered robots could also impact workers in nonroutine manual occupations.
Both AI and digital platforms may lead to the creation of new tasks (e.g., AI-prompt engineers and cloud engineers).
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The task structure of jobs in EAP and advanced economies
The exposure (technical susceptibility) of jobs to new technologies in EAP countries differs from that in advanced economies.
Because EAP countries employ more people in occupations involving routine manual tasks and fewer people in cognitive tasks, they are more vulnerable than advanced countries to job displacement by industrial robots than to displacement by AI.
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The labor market impacts of new technologies
The extent to which new technologies impact jobs depends not only on their technical feasibility but also on the economic viability of adopting the technologies. A specific technology is economically viable if the cost is lower than the benefit from adoption.
Robots
In the EAP region, as robots have become economically feasible, their adoption has led to an increase in overall manufacturing employment. This is because the higher productivity from adopting robots leads to increased scales of production that offset the labor displacing effects of automation.
But the impacts of robot adoption are being felt differently across population groups. For instance, between 2018 and 2022, robot adoption helped create jobs for an estimated 2 million (4.3 percent of) skilled formal workers but displaced an estimated 1.4 million (3.3 percent of) low-skilled formal workers in five Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries.
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AI
While it is too early to assess the labor market effects, AI is likely to also have both displacement and augmentation effects across occupations. The EAP region may be relatively less exposed to the displacement effects, but is also be less well placed to benefit from AI.
Only about 10 percent of jobs in the EAP region involve tasks complementary to AI. This share is similar to that in other emerging economies, but much lower than the 30 percent share in advanced economies.
Exposure to AI is not uniform across workers. In EAP, women and better educated workers are more exposed to AI than men and the less educated workers.
Exposure to AI by demographics, EAP countries
Economy-wide impacts of technology adoption
To assess the overall impact of technology on jobs, it is essential to consider the interdependence and impact of technology choices across sectors. EAP resembles the rest of the world in the labor market impacts of agricultural mechanization, but the impacts of industrial robotization have so far been different.
Mechanization is associated with farm productivity gains and little change in the level of agriculture employment. While the share of farm employment has shrunk globally and in EAP countries, this decline is driven more by the pull of higher manufacturing wages than by mechanization’s labor displacement.
In contrast, the share of manufacturing employment globally rises in the early stage of robot adoption and then falls. Developing EAP countries have so far defied this pattern. The share of industrial employment has continued to rise even as countries deepen robot adoption.
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Will AI replace your job? Perhaps not in the next decade | https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2025/0603 | Recent rapid improvements in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised concerns about these technologies' impact on... | Will AI replace your job? Perhaps not in the next decade
Mark A. Wynne and Lillian Derr
June 03, 2025
Recent rapid improvements in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised concerns about these technologies’ impact on employment, specifically, the rollout of generative AI models such as ChatGPT that can create new work product from existing inputs.
Unease about new technologies displacing workers is not new. It can be traced back at least to the earliest days of automation during the Industrial Revolution. Technologies such as the steam engine and the dynamo inspired similar fears in their day, as did information technology when computers were first introduced.
But the jobs AI is expected to touch in the years to come are different from those impacted by previous waves of technological change.
The ultimate effects of AI on the workforce will depend on the extent to which AI augments (or complements) rather than automates (or substitutes for) workers’ tasks. Will this new technology aid workers or replace them?
To understand AI’s possible occupational implications, we explore the workforce effects of the last technological advance thought to put jobs at risk: computerization. We look at the impact on occupations believed vulnerable to computerization 10 years ago and what that analysis may say about job vulnerability to generative AI today.
First, computers loomed over occupations
Before the advent of AI, the main workforce concern was whether computerization would displace jobs. A widely cited University of Oxford study by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, first circulated in 2013, examined the susceptibility of different occupations to computerization. It ultimately determined that 47 percent of total U.S. employment was at risk in 2013.
The authors assigned a probability of computerization to each of 702 occupations. Jobs deemed most at risk included telemarketers, title examiners, sewer workers, mathematical technicians, insurance underwriters, watch repairers, cargo and freight agents, tax preparers, photographic process workers, new account clerks, library technicians and data entry keyers, all with a 99 percent likelihood of computerization.
Among those deemed least at risk were recreational therapists, occupational therapists, health care and social workers and choreographers. All had a less than a half-percent likelihood of computers taking over.
Move over, here comes AI
A decade later, with the November 2022 release of ChatGPT and subsequent rapid advance of generative AI since then (DeepSeek, Stargate, Manus, for example), AI has overtaken computers as a leading risk to long-standing occupations.
A recent study by Edward W. Felten, Manav Raj and Robert Seamans attempts to identify occupations most vulnerable to automation from generative AI from both the perspective of language modeling (learning language and creating sentences after analyzing huge amounts of existing text) and image generation (creating images based on assimilation of large data sets) in a similar fashion to the earlier work by Frey and Osborne. Both studies identify occupations by the same occupation codes, making these two measures easily comparable.
The AI study authors created two scales for automation risk: from language modeling and image generating AI, labeling hundreds of occupations accordingly. The jobs identified as most susceptible to automation by language modeling AI include telemarketers, many types of teachers, sociologists, political scientists and arbitrators.
The jobs identified as most susceptible to automation by image generating AI include interior designers, architects, chemical engineers, art directors, astronomers and mechanical drafters.
Computerization, AI threaten different jobs
Comparing the occupations thought to be most likely to be computerized a decade ago with those most likely to be automated by AI today, the lists vastly differ (apart from telemarketers).
The risks to specific occupations from earlier computerization and AI language modeling appear little correlated. The results for image-generating AI are similar. Today’s at-risk occupations aren’t the same ones threatened earlier.
Bureau of Labor Statistics offers 10-year employment projections
Every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issues 10-year projections of employment in detailed occupations. The most recent set of projections was published in August 2024 covering 2023 to 2033. The BLS assumes that “labor productivity and technological progress will be in line with the historical experience” but recognizes that recent AI advances could cause the future to differ greatly from the past. These projections have historically been fairly accurate.
We looked at previous projections to better understand when they proved more or less accurate amid major technological change. We asked whether there is any evidence that the BLS’ misses by occupation were somehow related to the susceptibility of that occupation to computerization, as estimated by Frey and Osborne. | 2 weeks ago | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | data:image/jpeg;base64,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 | 16 | AI impact jobs | 2025-06-17 14:02:24 | null |
AI risks 'broken' career ladder for college graduates, some experts say | https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ai-risks-broken-career-ladder-college-graduates-experts/story?id=122527744 | Artificial intelligence could upend entry-level work as recent college graduates enter the job market, eliminating many positions at the... | AI risks 'broken' career ladder for college graduates, some experts say
Advances of AI chatbots like ChatGPT heighten concern, experts say.
By Max Zahn
June 6, 2025, 10:06 AM
Artificial intelligence could upend entry-level work as recent college graduates enter the job market, eliminating many positions at the bottom of the white-collar career ladder or at least reshaping them, some experts told ABC News.
Such forecasts follow yearslong advances in AI-fueled chatbots, and declarations from some company executives about the onset of AI automation.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, which created an AI model called Claude, told Axios last week that technology could cut U.S. entry-level jobs by half within five years.
When Business Insider laid off 21% of its staff last week, CEO Barbara Ping said the company would go "all in on AI" in an effort to "scale and operate more efficiently."
Analysts who spoke to ABC News said AI could replace or reorient entry-level jobs in some white-collar fields targeted by college graduates, such as computer programming and law.
Current job woes for this cohort, they added, likely owe in part to economic conditions beyond technology. Many blue-collar and other hands-on jobs will remain largely untouched by AI, they said, noting that tech-savvy young workers may be best positioned to fill new jobs that do incorporate AI.
"We're in the flux of dramatic change," said Lynn Wu, a professor of operations, information and decisions at the University of Pennsylvania. "I sympathize with college graduates. In the short run, they may stay with mom and dad for a while. But in the long run, they'll be fine. They're AI natives."
Over the early months of 2025, the job market for recent college graduates "deteriorated noticeably," the New York Federal Reserve said in April. It did not provide a reason for the trend.
The unemployment rate for recent college graduates reached 5.8%, its highest level since 2021, while the underemployment rate soared above 40%, the New York Fed said.
Youth unemployment likely stems from trends in the broader economy rather than AI, Anu Madgavkar, the head of labor market research at the McKinsey Global Institute, told ABC News
The softening job market coincides with business uncertainty and gloomy economic forecasts elicited by President Donald Trump's tariff policy.
"It's not surprising we're seeing this unemployment for young people," Madgavkar said. "There is a lot of economic uncertainty."
Still, entry-level tasks in white collar professions stand at serious risk from AI, analysts said, pointing to the technology's capacity to perform written and computational tasks as opposed to manual work.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on as he takes part in a session on AI during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on Jan. 23, 2025.
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AI could replace work previously performed by low-level employees, such as legal assistants compiling relevant precedent for a case or computer programmers writing a basic set of code, Madgavkar said.
"Is the bleeding edge or the first type of work to be hit a little more skewed toward entry-level, more basic work getting automated right now? That's probably true," Madgavkar said. "You could have fewer people getting a foothold."
Speaking bluntly, Wu said: "The biggest problem is that the career ladder is being broken."
For the most part, however, Madgavkar said entry-level positions would change rather than disappear. Managers will prize problem-solving and analysis over tasks dependent on sheer effort, she added, noting the required set of skills will likely include a capacity to use AI.
"I don't think it means we'll have no demand for entry-level workers or massively less demand," Madgavakar said. "I just think expectations for young people to use these tools will accelerate very quickly."
Some jobs and tasks remain largely immune to AI automation, analysts said, pointing to hands-on work such as manual labor and trades, as well as professional roles like doctors and upper management.
Isabella Loaiza, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies AI and the workforce, co-authored a study examining the shift in jobs and tasks across the U.S. economy between 2016 and 2024.
Rather than dispense with qualities like critical thinking and empathy, workplace technology heightened the need for workers who exhibit those attributes, Loaiza said, citing demand for occupations like early-education teachers, home health aides and therapists.
"It is true we're seeing AI having an impact on white-collar work instead of more blue-collar work," Loaiza said.
But, she added, "We found that jobs that are very human-intensive are probably more robust." | 1 week ago | ABC News | data:image/jpeg;base64,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 | 17 | AI impact jobs | 2025-06-17 14:02:24 | null |
Artificial intelligence and the future of work: Will AI replace our jobs? | https://unric.org/en/artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-work-will-ai-replace-our-jobs/ | WJe spoke to Janine Berg, Senior Economist at the ILO, on how A.I. might affect the world of work, including job creation and displacement. | Artificial intelligence and the future of work: Will AI replace our jobs?
As A.I. technologies rapidly emerge, their impact on the job market raises many questions. Although some might fear a looming “jobs apocalypse,” the International Labour Organization (ILO) gives a more nuanced perspective. Certain tasks are more difficult to automate, and new technologies create new opportunities.
UNRIC spoke to Janine Berg, Senior Economist at the ILO, on how A.I. might affect the world of work, including job creation and displacement, as well as its impact on regions and genders. This article explores the potential dangers and advantages that A.I. brings to the workplace and how best to prepare the workforce for an AI-driven future.
How will A.I. impact the job market in the coming years? What opportunities and challenges will A.I. bring in terms of job creation and displacement?
It’s very difficult to predict what will happen in the future, not least because technology continues to evolve. ILO research does not suggest that there will be a “jobs apocalypse”. There are many tasks that A.I. cannot replace or where it would not be cost-effective to replace a human. Many occupations deemed “essential” during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as emergency medical technicians or food preparers, involve jobs that cannot be automated.
ILO research on the effects of generative A.I. on the labour market finds that at most 2.3% of jobs across the world have the potential to be fully automated. Moreover, this 2.3% does not account for the many jobs that will be created thanks to new technology. Twenty years ago, there were no social media managers; thirty years ago, there were few web designers. No amount of data modelling would have predicted the vast array of occupations that have emerged in recent decades. Just think of the video rental stores that existed 25 years ago and how they have given way to cell phone repair stores.
We should also remember that many systems that appear automated are not, with human labour working in the background, often under poor conditions. This is true of A.I., which relies on millions of human labourers to train and verify data. In other cases, paid staff are replaced by the unpaid labour of customers, for example, through self-checkout machines in grocery stores.
Will the impact of A.I. on jobs be balanced between different regions and genders?
While the potential for job displacement from A.I. is not huge, it is concentrated. Our analysis finds that clerical support workers are most exposed to generative A.I. technology, with 58% of tasks in this occupation having medium-level exposure and 24% having high-level exposure. This stands in contrast to other occupational groups, in which the largest share of highly exposed tasks oscillates between 1% and 4%, and medium-exposed tasks do not exceed 25%. As women are over-represented in clerical jobs, they are more affected by the potential effects of automation. According to our analysis, the potential impact on women is roughly 2.5 times greater than on men. We estimate that 1.4% of men’s jobs globally have the potential to be automated, compared with 3.7% of women’s employment. In high-income countries, where clerical jobs make up a greater proportion of occupations, the effects are more striking: 2.9% of men’s jobs compared with 7.8% of women’s jobs.
Another imbalance concerns the potential benefits of A.I. between rich and poor countries. ILO research indicates that many occupations could benefit from A.I., for example, by replacing mundane tasks and freeing time for more creative and interpersonal work. But these productivity gains depend on having the physical infrastructure and digital skills in place, which many parts of the developing world currently lack.
In a recent ILO study by my colleague, Pawel Gmyrek, co-authored with Herman Winkler of the World Bank, they assessed how many jobs that could be “augmented” through generative A.I. currently use a computer at work. They found that in Latin America, nearly half of the occupations that could potentially benefit from A.I. augmentation do not use a computer at work. In contrast, jobs that are at risk of automation tend to already use computers, suggesting that the potential negative effects may appear sooner.
How can governments and organizations prepare the workforce for the changes brought by A.I. technologies?
It benefits both business and workers when employees are engaged in the process of technological integration. Workers know their jobs best and can provide insight and feedback on which tools could better support their work, which tasks could be automated, and what training is needed. Problems often arise when technology is deployed without worker involvement, both in terms of the technology not working well and because it diminishes workers’ sense of purpose and commitment to the firm.
The best approach is to integrate technology through social dialogue between employers and workers, and their representatives. This can occur through formal settings, such as works councils or collective bargaining agreements, or more informally, in workplaces with a high degree of employee engagement, such as organizations that support teamwork, problem-solving and decentralized decision-making. Studies on Europe have shown that it is the countries with stronger and more cooperative forms of workplace consultation, essentially the Nordic countries, followed by Germany, where workers are more open to technological adoption.
Social dialogue is essential to manage all the implications that new technologies, including A.I., can bring about in workplaces and the labour market more broadly. It is crucial to mitigate technological unemployment, as it encourages redeployment and training over job loss, as well as for integrating technology into the workplace, to ensure that it is done in a way that benefits both firm productivity and job quality. Social dialogue is also vital for designing skills programmes that can train workers for new career opportunities, and for ensuring that the skills programmes undertaken are well-suited to the demands of the labour market.
What policies or measures should be put in place to ensure a smooth transition in the labour market as A.I. advances?
I already mentioned that social dialogue is key to managing the transition. Another concern is the global A.I. or digital divide. We need to ensure that the many dimensions of A.I. governance are addressed through international governance. In our recent joint report with the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, Mind the A.I. Divide, we proposed three key policy pillars to address these challenges and harness the development potential of A.I.
First, strengthening international cooperation on A.I. is crucial. To close the A.I. divide, we must foster a global network for knowledge-sharing and establish joint training initiatives. By building collaborative research partnerships and ensuring equitable access to A.I. resources, we can help all nations, particularly developing ones, to benefit from A.I. advancements fully.
Second, building national A.I. capacity is essential. Countries need to make significant investments in education and digital infrastructure. This includes integrating A.I. and data science into educational curricula and ensuring that A.I. tools are widely accessible. National policies should promote human-centred A.I. development, ensuring privacy, safety, and workers’ rights are protected.
Third, integrating A.I. positively into the world of work is vital. This involves ensuring that A.I. contributes to creating decent work opportunities and supporting workers’ reskilling efforts. It also requires addressing gender- and youth-specific challenges. Crucially, social dialogue should play a key role in managing A.I.’s integration into the workplace, ensuring that the voices of workers are heard, and that A.I. enhances rather than diminishes job quality.
Janine Berg
Senior Economist at the ILO
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AI could affect 40 per cent of global jobs, warns UN | https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/04/07/ai-could-impact-40-per-cent-of-jobs-worldwide-in-the-next-decade-un-agency-warns | Artificial intelligence (AI) may impact 40 per cent of jobs worldwide, which could mean overall productivity growth but many could lose their... | AI could impact 40 per cent of jobs worldwide in the next decade, UN agency warns
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A United Nations agency has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could impact up to 40% of jobs worldwide in the next decade.
The warning comes as businesses and governments are increasingly looking to AI to automate tasks and increase efficiency.
However, the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) has cautioned that this could lead to significant job losses, particularly in sectors where tasks are repetitive or can be easily automated.
The ILO has called for governments and businesses to take steps to mitigate the impact of AI on employment, including providing training and support for workers who may be displaced by automation.
The warning is the latest in a series of concerns raised about the impact of AI on employment, with some experts warning that up to 50% of jobs could be automated in the next few decades.
However, others have argued that while AI may automate some tasks, it will also create new job opportunities in fields such as AI development and maintenance.
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AI is 'breaking' entry-level jobs that Gen Z workers need to launch careers, LinkedIn exec warns | https://fortune.com/2025/05/25/ai-entry-level-jobs-gen-z-careers-young-workers-linkedin/ | LinkedIn's chief economic opportunity officer, Aneesh Raman, said artificial intelligence is increasingly threatening the types of jobs that... | AI is ‘breaking’ entry-level jobs that Gen Z workers need to launch careers, LinkedIn exec warns
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May 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM EDT
“Breaking first is the bottom rung of the career ladder,” said LinkedIn's chief economic opportunity officer, Aneesh Raman.
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LinkedIn’s chief economic opportunity officer, Aneesh Raman, said artificial intelligence is increasingly threatening the types of jobs that historically have served as stepping stones for young workers who are just beginning their careers. He likened the disruption to the decline of manufacturing in the 1980s.
As millions of students get ready to graduate this spring, their prospects for landing that first job that helps launch their careers is looking dimmer.
In addition to an economy that’s slowing amid tariff-induced uncertainty, artificial intelligence is threatening entry-level work that traditionally has served as stepping stones, according to LinkedIn’s chief economic opportunity officer, Aneesh Raman, who likened the shift to the decline of manufacturing in the 1980s.
“Now it is our office workers who are staring down the same kind of technological and economic disruption,” he wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed. “Breaking first is the bottom rung of the career ladder.”
For example, AI tools are doing the types of simple coding and debugging tasks that junior software developers did to gain experience. AI is also doing work that young employees in the legal and retail sectors once did. And Wall Street firms are reportedly considering steep cuts to entry-level hiring.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for college graduates has been rising faster than for other workers in past few years, Raman pointed out, though there isn’t definitive evidence yet that AI is the cause of the weak job market.
To be sure, businesses aren’t doing away with entry-level work altogether, as executives still seek fresh ideas from young workers, he added. AI has also freed up some junior employees to take on more advanced work earlier in their careers.
But changes rippling through certain sectors today are likely heading for others in the future, with office jobs due to feel the biggest impact, Raman predicted.
“While the technology sector is feeling the first waves of change, reflecting A.I.’s mass adoption in this field, the erosion of traditional entry-level tasks is expected to play out in fields like finance, travel, food and professional services, too,” he said.
To fix entry-level work, Raman called for colleges to incorporate AI across their curricula and for companies to give junior roles higher-level tasks.
There are some signs that companies are adapting to the new AI landscape. Jasper.ai CEO Timothy Young told Fortune’s Diane Brady recently that “the commoditization of intelligence” means hiring the smartest people is less important than developing staff to have management skills.
“There is a lot of power in the junior employees, but you can’t leverage them the same way that you would in the past,” he said, noting that he looks for curiosity and resilience when hiring.
Indeed CEO Chris Hyams said at Fortune’s Workplace Innovation Summit in Dana Point, Calif. on Monday that AI can’t completely replace a job.
But Indeed’s findings show that “for about two-thirds of all jobs, 50% or more of those skills are things that today’s generative AI can do reasonably well, or very well.”
Still, language-learning app Duolingo and fintech app Klarna have recently walked back aggressive stances on replacing humans with AI.
Some studies have also shown AI isn’t panning out as much as hoped, so far. An IBM survey found that 3 in 4 AI initiatives fail to deliver their promised ROI. And a National Bureau of Economic Research study of workers in AI-exposed industries found that the technology had next to no impact on earnings or hours worked.
“It seems it’s a much smaller and much slower transition than you might imagine if you had just studied the technology’s potential in a vacuum,” University of Chicago economics professor Anders Humlum, one of the NBER study authors, previously told Fortune. | 3 weeks ago | Fortune | data:image/jpeg;base64,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 | 20 | AI impact jobs | 2025-06-17 14:02:24 | null |
Perspective: From engineers to fast food, how AI is rocking the future of jobs | https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/06/11/artificial-intelligence-ai-changing-future-jobs/ | AI has the potential to make sweeping labor market changes. How can workers prepare? | # Perspective: From engineers to fast food, how AI is rocking the future of jobs
## The future is here, and it requires robust AI literacy and support for workers and families
Published: June 11, 2025, 9:17 a.m. MDT
By Brent Orrell
Brent is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), specializing in job training and workforce development.
Artificial intelligence development and deployment is accelerating, and so are the ironies. A recent report by Great Learning found that a growing number of Indian engineers — a group deeply involved in creating and deploying AI — are pessimistic about how it will affect their careers. Far from irrational pessimism, this is an early indicator of what my recent research calls the “de-skilling” of the knowledge economy — AI’s slow but accelerating erosion of middle-skill technical and cognitive work.
The concern Indian engineers express is increasingly visible across global labor markets. U.S. labor unions are calling for AI legal protections. Fast food chains are testing AI-driven voice ordering and robotic kitchen equipment that could displace thousands of teenage and other entry-level workers. The technologies that seem novel today are rapidly becoming commonplace, creating broad unease about the future of work.
While production workers are not exempt from AI impacts, the most exposed jobs are held by millions working in middle-skill, middle-income “knowledge” economy jobs. Many of these jobs are made up of the types of tasks that are especially well suited to AI automation because, like the factory jobs of the past, they are repetitive, “codable” and subject to technological substitution.
The compression of middle-skill employment is already visible in sectors like software development. Routine front-end coding tasks are increasingly being handled by generative AI. More experienced coders — those who can manage complex system integration and lead cross-functional teams — are still in demand. But the base of the coding professional pyramid is narrowing. This is classic skills-biased technological change: those with the right combination of technical and noncognitive skills benefit greatly, others must reskill, and many are squeezed out of their current jobs altogether.
“Workers need to know that, as a society, we have their backs if AI displaces them. If we fail to prepare, we are inviting even more of the economic and social turmoil that we’ve experienced in the past decade.”
What’s striking in the new reports is how widespread the effects are becoming. In fast food, AI is reducing the need for human cashiers and kitchen staff — roles traditionally filled by young people seeking their first work experience. These aren’t knowledge economy jobs per se, but they serve as training grounds for “master skills” — like teamwork, time management and communication — that future AI-enhanced jobs increasingly demand.
As AI systems become capable of handling not just repetitive tasks but also judgment-heavy work like customer service, legal document review and financial risk analysis, even highly credentialed professionals are exposed. Automating brain work is likely to have effects similar to automating “muscle” work. Productivity growth means we will still need workers, but those workers will need a different blend of technological and human-facing capabilities.
The extreme uncertainty we face means starting now in designing an automation adjustment assistance system with the scale and flexibility required for potentially sweeping labor market changes. As I will outline in a forthcoming report, such a system would have four core elements: better jobs data, worker-controlled transition support, broad AI literacy programs and, as a hedge for the future, greater investment in child, family and community stability.
Our existing “rearview mirror” labor market information systems need recalibration toward understanding the impact of technological change. Without locally and regionally focused “headlight” data, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to effectively target re-skilling and education investments. When it comes to AI impacts, harnessing the power of predictive analytics is the foundation for finding and supporting the workers most exposed to automation.
A second key need is to develop more flexible and worker-driven employment transition systems. Tools like Individual Training Accounts (ITAs) can empower workers to choose their own upskilling pathways, while a reimagined version of Trade Adjustment Assistance — tailored for the effects of automation — could offer broader, more effective transition support that would cushion change for those in need of long-term reskilling.
AI literacy is also critical in the same way reading and math are. This means integrating exposure to AI tools and concepts into K-12 education, higher ed, corporate retraining programs and workforce development.
Crucially, we need to invest in people to build the human attributes required for learning and work in an AI-driven economy. The challenge is that these skills — sometimes referred to as noncognitive or soft skills — are often shaped very early in life. That means increasing investment in family stability, early childhood development and other initiatives that promote healthy communities.
We’ve seen this movie before in the automation revolution of the past 40 years. Workers need to know that, as a society, we have their backs if AI displaces them. If we fail to prepare, we are inviting even more of the economic and social turmoil that we’ve experienced in the past decade. And, this time, we will have only ourselves to blame. | 5 days ago | Deseret News | data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wCEAAkGBwgHBgkIBwgKCgkLDRYPDQwMDRsUFRAWIB0iIiAdHx8kKDQsJCYxJx8fLT0tMTU3Ojo6Iys/RD84QzQ5OjcBCgoKDQwNGg8PGjclHyU3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3N//AABEIAEIAdwMBIgACEQEDEQH/xAAbAAABBQEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAIDBQYBB//EADsQAAIBAwIDBQQHBgcAAAAAAAECAwAEEQUhEjFBEyJRYXEGQoGRFCMycrHR4RVSYqHB8AcWMzQ1dPH/xAAaAQADAQEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAACAwQBBQAG/8QAKREAAgIBBAEDAgcAAAAAAAAAAQIAAxEEEiExEyJh0TJBBSMzUWJxgf/aAAwDAQACEQMRAD8A9XpU0SIwXDqQ32cHn6U1yy7jcV80TgZnRAzHsMgjcZ8KYyHgCg8up611JAw32p2Qa9wZ7qAxWjI8shCcTnmo5gDbPiadup8DRlQTL1pTJjkRivk8xqzEc964k8vbNxhOywOEj7QPUH86ZiuMyopZ2CqBkknAAoQzQiohXbLTlkVuRoJGWVA8bBkYZDKcgj1qol9pdOhu/o7PLx8QXiVNt/jTaxY+dq5xFtsXszQzJxDI5ihmUjmKiMogeaZXklcjdFPERjoAOVRNqw/ay6fcRCPtY+KKV9gx6j1+X5gQG5hgEQgkL9o4ztvQV9qltZghm45Okaneh4pxHqk+la3Ijdt37V/sq6k/Z9QeX/lU2r6DcWcjFGZ7c+8o5evh+FLcFRmPrClsMYZZ6/Co4r1X5kB17wHl+vWlVKqogAIPZ+Qyf1pVOLWMp8KTQa9fSfTx2DdmYCMsmxLEc/PY4+dK11u5N1G9ww7MLwngHQ9d855VzXLWS0mkuohxwz7SL4N0/v8AOqeaTAXg2OcgEUL2Wo/cUlaMo4mp1bUTa2KXto8VwgkAZFPDkEHrvjfHSqZPbUq4V9OkDfwy5/pU8mnrf6ctxZKAHQl4s+8PD4isi1sST9a4X90VSLCexibTTWwIaehaVqx1i1mZAYsPw4DYZRgdcHz3pup69DazRxEK3e+s4DnhGD5eOKzHsrfpaXahu7BMeD037p/vxrTalo1tcwytHEFnIJBHU+lE1jY4inqRLMHqDS+0ESTDs17SEruwzz+IFM1tpu0hF+sbaPNHw3EbISQ2+xHVcHf7vrWaiJRymSrjdWHPNazT5xrelPb3oPHjhkIOCfA+RrNLeBZ6+pmppKp6IFd6ami6asuhXK28eOKKLjPZN125jHz+FYWGSU+1kdxdxxLpskga7Mblu8Bju9cZC9B1r0OD2Q0xLJk47y4nSNhGLm7d15cguQo+VeYQG1sWt9OjdjI7YjjOWZizf1JNfSaXY6Eg595xbtynBE9p0W6t9Ut1ubPJt8kcTLgkjpjpQmtaLbalHGlyGMaPxo6HB9M1LoLfszQ7S0kXM0ad7h5Akk4+GcUZYySKkvcaRQvFwrzJ8BUFtdLkIp/2V12WJ65TNotq+nyWUrzSxsSVaR+Jo/uk8uVHvIyvGgRnB5tthQPGrC7CC1L9mFYgdBkeVVwkPvcqjuoas4zmPW7f3K3WtNWeEy28YE6kHYY4vWu1anlSqF6lJlKWsowJIaAtdHsoFPFCsrnctIM/LwqwFKnYB5iQSOpHBBFbx9nAgRMk8I5VkfaXT/od2LiHKxzMSMe6/l+PzrZVT+1HZyaRLuCyOpHkc4/AmsYcRlLEPMvfWii3iu4EAtpwcqBsj+8vpnOK03s3qRvrQwzNm4gwGJ5uvRvz8xVHocvbWd9p8oDIzLIufdyMbfFQaCs5biy1aHsAxkDmNwg908/hyPwoQcNKXTeCp7E11todpHO086CWQsSAw7qjPhRkNtFBcO8MPZ8SgMVwAfh4/nQS3sw34s+tTx6gOHvqS3lWBkkp3HswuVxFG0hGyAt8t68Tvba20/WLnVDbPE8N6DbzoxIlkJLLgcuLIORyr2K5u4ZLaVFY5aNhy8q89aGL9k6rczNHwwzR95yMDBbJ8uY3rt/hhUKx9wJztXnIE9O0u4S9s7e5+rRpY1fhaPlkeIxVko4BuVx5Lisdol8To9i0Lo0f0dMEbgjFWNvqMpRoJGLK/I+FIXWqlhUiNOnYqCIbe3PbEIn2B/M1GkYAywyfCoDLHEQXPwHM1C9+4fuheHzFSXX5bmOrq44lhyFdqvGoNgd1c9aVI3iO2mWDOsa8TsAKalzC5wsikmqZ5HkbLsWPnXKDyzfHLi4uUhH7x6gHlVHeRtc28kXFw8fU71KWLHc5865Qs2YSjbArDTY7OR5Vkd3dQrZxj4Ci1jRGZlUBnOWPU0jIg99fnUbXUK+9n0oCw+8M7j3Jsil0zjbxrPXWtS6LqjXFvBFKk4JJYYJOFG/pw7feNOf/ABAviMLaoD9/9KoSpWXO6AQ/2EtppIp4rmFJe9wMrFDgrkEbVktC9nov8salp9zKzPNdM7ugxg4UAijrTXJr65uLq77OMcCxgDqSSevXnUtjdLbaQzzFVRizux9f0q/T/lVf26/MkvBNmP4mGeyqCHQba2XJFuDFk9cdf51bKeFgRzG9Z/Q7po7FgqhvrGI358qsfpz43QD41ztYypqHHvKdOpapT7Q92LniY5JrlA/TXPurTI9QdmYMqj+HqKm8gMdsMNAKjBYsc5ya7Qv01OqNSrd6z20w4UjtmlSrTBEqjLJ21wO0faTA35bU3JPMk+tKlU9vcdEQFGFAA8qZMAUOQDuKVKhX6oY7lZ7R/wC0jPXtP6VnaVKunpf04swhv+MX/uR/gau5lVtKRWAKlcEEbEUqVX6gkU04/f5nPAHmshlmqohCKFHgBip2AIIIBHnXKVcK05sM6KfSI2D/AExTjSpUo9mEY00qVKtE2f/Z | 21 | AI impact jobs | 2025-06-17 14:02:24 | null |
AI’s Role in Reshaping Employment: From Theory to Home Building Sector Impacts | https://eyeonhousing.org/2025/06/ais-role-in-reshaping-employment-from-theory-to-home-building-sector-impacts/ | The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly machine learning and generative AI (GenAI), is reshaping industries,... | AI’s Role in Reshaping Employment: From Theory to Home Building Sector Impacts
Jing Fu
June 9, 2025
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly machine learning and generative AI (GenAI), is reshaping industries, creating new economic opportunities, and raising critical questions about its long-term impact on jobs and economic growth.
A recent study by Ping Wang and Tsz-Nga Wong, titled “ _Artificial Intelligence and Technological Unemployment”_ ([NBER Working Paper No. 33867](http://www.nber.org/papers/w33867), May 2025), provides valuable insights into how AI is reshaping labor markets. Their research highlights both the opportunities and challenges AI adoption brings to the workforce as it becomes increasingly integrated into the economy.
The paper conceptualizes AI as a “learning-by-using” technology, meaning that AI improves its capabilities by learning from the very workers it may eventually replace. In the short term, this dynamic can significantly boost labor productivity. However, over time, if wages and job roles are not adjusted to reflect the growing capabilities of AI, the technology may transition from a supportive tool to a direct substitute for human labor.
The paper outlines three possible long-term scenarios:
1. **Some-AI Steady State** : AI improves productivity threefold but cuts nearly a quarter of jobs. Half of the job losses occur within the first five years, driven by the rapid replacement of workers by an AI system.
2. **Unbounded-AI Equilibrium** : AI adoption unfolds smoothly, enhancing productivity without displacing workers. Employment rises modestly as AI becomes a complement to human labor rather than a substitute.
3. **No AI Equilibrium** : AI fails to take off, and the labor market remains largely unchanged from its traditional form.
AI presents a dual-edged sword. While it holds the potential to drive sustained growth and create new kinds of work, it also poses significant risks of job displacement. Early stages of AI adoption see the most significant job losses, while those who keep their jobs often see wage increases due to higher productivity.
The authors emphasize that the long-term impact of AI remains uncertain. Outcomes will depend on several variables, including AI’s learning speed, error rates, and the relative cost of replacing workers with machines. This unpredictability makes it difficult to forecast whether AI will be a net job creator or destroyer over time.
Additionally, the study points out that traditional labor market policies are insufficient to address the complex challenges posed by AI. Instead, smart, targeted policies are needed, like balancing the bargaining power between workers and firms, and offering subsidies to jobs at risk of AI disruption. These steps could mitigate negative outcomes and improve overall welfare significantly over the next 20 years, and help make AI a powerful ally in our work rather than a threat.
### **The Impact of AI on the Home Building Industry: Opportunities and Challenges**
In the home building industry, on the supply side, AI is beginning to make its mark with both significant opportunities and complex challenges.
From automating repetitive tasks to enhancing project efficiency, AI is transforming how homes are designed and built. Technologies, such as AI-powered design tools, robotic bricklayers, and automated construction equipment, are streamlining construction processes. These innovations reduce the need for manual labor in certain areas, leading to lower costs and shorter project timelines and helping address ongoing labor shortages. Moreover, AI is creating new opportunities within the home building sector. Demand is rising for workers skilled in AI system management, data analysis, and digital design, signaling a shift toward more technologically integrated and highly skilled roles.
However, the adoption of AI comes with disruption. Without opportunities for reskilling, many workers whose roles may become automated may face displacement. The shortage of highly skilled workers could drive up labor costs and lead to project delays, putting pressure on housing affordability.
To ensure a smooth transformation, targeted policy support is essential. Public and private investment in workforce retraining and upskilling programs will be key to helping displaced workers adapt to new roles, like ones that involve supervising AI systems or solving complex problems machines can’t yet handle.
On the demand side of the housing market, the impact of AI could potentially be farther-reaching. AI will bring short-term disruption to labor markets, eliminating office jobs in metro areas. Such transitions in labor markets will alter housing demand, until the economy produces new jobs in an AI-adopting economy. And in theory, by making workers more productive, AI will raise long-term wage growth. These income gains will be a positive outcome for remodeling, housing demand, and vacation home demand in long run.
For the time being, these impacts are speculative. Over time, they will be worth watching on both the supply and demand sides of the housing market.
### **Note:**
1. Schmelzer, Ron. “Building The Future: How AI Is Revolutionizing Construction.” <https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2024/10/18/building-the-future-how-ai-is-revolutionizing-construction/>
2. “The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Construction.” _Construction Today_ , September 2024.
3. Demirci, Ozge, Jonas Hannane, and Xinrong Zhu. “Research: How Gen AI Is Already Impacting the Labor Market.” _Harvard Business Review_ , November 11, 2024.
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