We’ve all heard the debate about AI and jobs: An apocalypse is coming, there are only 18 months left to save white-collar work, no job will be unchanged. Former White House AI czar David Sacks, shortly before he left after his year of service, argued doomsday predictions from figures such as Dario Amodei and Sam Altman had been a “damage to public trust.” Amodei and Altman have walked back their predictions of late, Fortune was among the first to note, but the fear and angst remain among Gen Z job seekers.
Meanwhile, the entry-level career ladder has started showing real cracks, with experts such as Stanford’s Erik Brynjolfsson arguing for clear signs in the data of disruption in AI-exposed occupations, even as the wider macro picture has shown that the earthquake isn’t here, yet.
