Gen Z is terrified that AI will take their jobs

Right to be nervous about AI?

In February, Fortune and Bloomberg report this that more than 4,000 jobs have been lost in the US as of May 2023 due to the adoption of AI. The team behind the report, Challenger, Gray and Christmasadded that this was “certainly too little.” One of the companies mentioned in the report was UPS, which let go of staff as AI automated some processes.

However, there is also a trend among companies not to replace staff with AI, but with AI-smart people. Nvidia’s billionaire CEO Jensen Huang said at the AI ​​Summit in October that roles like his are safe, but AI can do 20% to 50% of some people’s work; and it will be “the person who uses AI to automate that 20% (who) will take your job.”

Employees know they have to put on makeup. In May TThe Financial Times reported this based on a study conducted by educational consultant CarringtonCrisp. A survey of 10,000 students in 40 countries found that almost half of respondents planned to learn about AI in the next five years.