AI Sawed Off the First Rung of the Career Ladder

Here is the uncomfortable truth that nobody in the AI industry wants to discuss at their conference panels: the people getting most immediately and severely hurt by AI are not middle managers or senior executives. They are the twenty-two-year-olds trying to start their careers.

The entry-level job is disappearing. Not because AI is taking over everything — because it is exceptionally good at doing the thing young people used to get hired to do.

What Entry-Level Jobs Actually Were

Think about what entry-level work looked like for the past few decades: