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AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Bill Gates says Gen Z may not be safe no matter how well they learn to use it
Fortune ^ | August 4, 224 | Jessica Coacci

Posted on 08/05/2025 6:23:34 PM PDT by anthropocene_x

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has advice for recent graduates: Embrace AI tools, but don’t expect any stability when it comes to the job search.

Gen Z is increasingly burned out from job hunting before even getting started. Frustrated applicants have lamented on TikTok about the number of rejection emails they have received from companies and expressed fears that the job market feels broken. And recent data backs them up: Entry-level job postings in the U.S. overall dwindled by about 35% since January 2023, and roles that are easily automated by AI are experiencing a disproportionately large impact.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for recent college grads has climbed above 6% over the past 12 months ending in May.

(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ai; capitalism; endstagecapitalism; gopwonthelpthem; jobs; theywillvotedemocrat; trumpisownedbyaiguys

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This is going to get exponentially worse as AI gets more advanced.
1 posted on 08/05/2025 6:23:34 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
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To: anthropocene_x

Law school graduates will be very hard hit.


2 posted on 08/05/2025 6:23:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: anthropocene_x

Why is Bill Gates still safe?


3 posted on 08/05/2025 6:26:57 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: anthropocene_x

AI is going to separate the truly intelligent from the ones who excel at only copy/pasting.


4 posted on 08/05/2025 6:26:59 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: anthropocene_x

“Learn to Prompt.”


5 posted on 08/05/2025 6:27:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: anthropocene_x

Plumbers are safe, and they make up to $200K a year.


6 posted on 08/05/2025 6:27:39 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: exinnj

Unless they have to compete with illegals.


7 posted on 08/05/2025 6:28:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: anthropocene_x

Well...if you’ve majored in SOCIAL JUSTICE, WOMEN’S STUDIES, LGBTQRATOSNNLMN, TRANSGENDER VICTORIAN POETRY,or any of the other “underwater basket weaving kind of majors, getting a job after graduating,is going to be a gigantic problem!


8 posted on 08/05/2025 6:29:54 PM PDT by nopardons
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“Gen Z is increasingly burned out from job hunting before even getting started.”

How the heck do you get “burned out” before even getting started?
Is Gates out there diddling under age girls again?

9 posted on 08/05/2025 6:35:59 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: anthropocene_x

Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.

Moving our factories overseas created many idle hands here.
AI will create many more idle hands.

I don’t know how this will play out. But it won’t be like the old days, when out of work wagon makers got jobs in automotive plants.

I’m not optimistic.


10 posted on 08/05/2025 6:36:44 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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People may remember that a few decades ago, the MBA people decided that “middle management” was a waste of money. What did those guys do, anyway? They managed a team of 5? maybe 10 people? Middle management got hollowed out and now somebody with a spreadsheet manages 100 or 150 people. Doesn’t know who they are or what they do, but he manages the team.

AI coming for the entry level jobs? That’s bad for anyone starting out.
And the lucky ones who actually get some kind of entry level job, despite AI? How will they ever advance? There’s no middle management layer. Do you plan to go from “entry level” to “I manage 150 people” as your next little step up? There is a lot of competition for that next little step up.

Work is going to change for a lot of people. Because their labor contribution will no longer be needed or valued.


11 posted on 08/05/2025 6:36:59 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
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To: exinnj

That is what my nephew will be doing.


12 posted on 08/05/2025 6:37:49 PM PDT by madison10 (You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.)
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To: anthropocene_x

The occupation of paralegal is virtually wiped out. 90% of audit staff in CPA firms are going to disappear. Engineering drawing is already a thing of the past. But most of the lost jobs will be in India.


13 posted on 08/05/2025 6:39:53 PM PDT by anton
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To: anthropocene_x
There is a shift in the economy that people cannot comprehend. The human aspect of work will be phased out in many sectors. Why do you think tech bros aligned with Trump? The advancements in tech is so fast that many areas of human work will be lessened.

Deflation is coming to wages and other areas. That is point of the billions and billions in spending by companies to tech advancements; eliminate costs and the human edge in work.

We have our government joining forces with powerful groups that want to eliminate the human inefficiency, good luck.


14 posted on 08/05/2025 6:47:46 PM PDT by Theoria
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“AI” is being used as a scapegoat for layoffs to increase the profit of corporations. Odd that CEOs and other C-Suite members don’t seem to be too “threatened” by the miraculous “AI”.


15 posted on 08/05/2025 6:48:22 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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I am a retired number cruncher and was viewed as a subject matter expert—but there is no doubt that AI would have replaced me in a few years if I was still working.

It will be smarter and faster than I could ever hope to be.

I would think a lot of the tax preparation industry will be another AI casualty.


16 posted on 08/05/2025 6:50:42 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Frank Drebin

The senior executives will be safe for a few years—but their day is coming as well.


17 posted on 08/05/2025 6:51:53 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: JZelle

> Why is Bill Gates still safe? <

I’m still trying to decide who is more evil, Bill Gates or Anthony Fauci.

Maybe it’s a tie.


18 posted on 08/05/2025 6:53:46 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: anthropocene_x

Return to the trades that cannot be replaced by AI.


19 posted on 08/05/2025 6:54:20 PM PDT by Petrosius
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I don’t think AI is going to take over plumbing, electrical, mechanical, or construction jobs any time soon.


20 posted on 08/05/2025 6:58:38 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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