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Preston Fore

IMF chief warns AI’s ‘slow-moving tsunami’ is coming—and it could leave Gen Z graduates stuck making lattes at Starbucks

Photo of Kristalina Georgieva (Credit: Roslan RAHMAN / AFP via Getty Images)

The world is only just beginning to feel AI’s impact on the job market, according to Kristalina Georgieva, head of the International Monetary Fund. The coming disruption, she said, is like a “slow-moving tsunami” and warned that young workers could be among those hit hardest.

“The people to worry about first and foremost are young people that are coming into the labor market,” Georgieva said at an event in conjunction with the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok on Monday.

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