“Several #CEOs of major #tech companies in the US have warned that AI will wipe out millions of white-collar and #EntryLevel #TechJobs by as early as 2030. Are we right to fear for the next generation of young people? I am a tech pessimist.

Not only will #AI make many relatively well-paying #MiddleClass #jobs redundant, but its rampant use during critical learning and developmental stages of life threatens to leave young people dependent on it as a tool for basic #research, #writing and #analysis, and ill-equipped to face the challenges of a changing and unstable world.

This is only amplified by the infiltration of #SocialMedia and #TechCompanies into every corner of #social and #cultural life, and with it the addiction-driven commodification of our #time and #attention, packaged into #data insights and #marketing opportunities for sale to #ThirdParties.”

#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-first-generation-with-declining-standards-of-living-australia-s-faltering-economic-standing-20250618-p5m8k7.html> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/BkUQw>

“From hospitals to #GP clinics, the #tool has been lauded by burnt-out doctors for helping to lighten to back-breaking load.

Dr #BenCondon, who now works for an Australian #HealthTechnology company, first stumbled across #AI during a shift in a rural #WesternAustralian emergency department.

"I was blown away by how much it helped, in terms of giving me an extra set of hands … *writing all my notes*," he said.

But experts have warned there are real #risks: patient #information from #DataBreaches can fetch a pretty penny on the dark web, and the #technology has the potential to generate "#misleading" #information”

#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #HealthSystems / #Australia <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/ai-scribes-gps-and-hospitals-accuracy-data-breach-risk/105490478>

“Jamie Dimon is unequivocal about the impact of #RemoteWorking on #training new bankers. “It doesn’t work in our business,” the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase told Stanford’s Graduate School of Business this year.

“Younger people [are] left behind.”
He has previously spoken of the importance of “the #apprenticeship model . . . which is almost impossible to replicate in the #Zoom world”.

In many #workplaces, that #ApprenticeshipModel is as simple as sitting near a more experienced #colleague or joining a #client meeting to watch how it is done, while also *learning the ropes* by taking on often more #repetitive and #basic #tasks.

But #OnTheJob learning is now facing the double threat of #HybridWorking, which means #JuniorStaff spend less time #observing and #listening to more senior #colleagues, and #GenerativeAI, which is making #obsolete many of the routine tasks that have long been building blocks of #ProfessionalKnowledge.”

#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #AI <https://www.ft.com/content/071089b8-839a-4f96-af79-394c08a146d1> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/WROMn>

“When implementing an AI strategy, #companies have to look at all these aspects to find the best fit for their needs. This is harder than it sounds. A business’s decision on how to #deploy AI is very different to choosing a static #technology stack to be rolled out across an entire organisation in an identical way.

Businesses have yet to understand that a successful #AIStrategy is “no longer a #tech decision made in a tech department about #hardware”, says #MackenzieHowe, co-founder of #Atheni, an AI strategy #consultant. As a result, she says, nearly *three-quarters of #AI rollouts do not give any return on investment*.”

#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #infrastructure / #AIDeployment <https://www.ft.com/content/8452bf94-9a41-4040-913f-ef1a462d6ea6> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/WlhLh>

“The natural worry for anyone hoping to have a job in five years’ time is what #AI might do to that job. And while there are few certainties, Autor and Thompson’s framework does suggest a clarifying question: does AI look like it is going to do the most highly skilled part of your #job or the low-skill rump that you’ve not been able to get rid of?

The answer to that question may help to #predict whether your job is about to get more fun or more annoying — and whether your #salary is likely to rise, or fall as your #ExpertWork is #devalued like the expert work of the #Luddites.”

#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #ArtificialIntelligence / #economics / #MartinWolf <https://www.ft.com/content/b67bcbaa-67b9-48f8-ad4d-4cd6f9bdc1b7> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/Cn6lu>

“The number of new #EntryLevel UK jobs has dropped by almost a third since the launch of ChatGPT, figures suggest, as companies use artificial intelligence to cut back the size of their workforces.

#Vacancies for #graduate jobs, #apprenticeships, #internships and #JuniorJobs with *no degree requirement* have dropped 32% since the launch of the #AIChatbot in November 2022, research by the job search site Adzuna released on Monday has found. These entry-level jobs now account for 25% of the market in the #UK, down from 28.9% in 2022.

Businesses are increasingly using #AI as a route to improve efficiency and reduce staff numbers. This month the chief executive of #BT, #AllisonKirkby, said advances in AI could presage deeper job cuts at the #telecoms company, after it outlined plans two years ago to shed between 40,000 and 55,000 #workers.”

#ArtificialIntelligence / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/30/uk-entry-level-jobs-chatgpt-launch-adzuna>

“What seems rather dangerous about #Hollywood’s interest in #GenerativeAI isn’t the “death” of the larger #StudioSystem, but rather this #technology’s potential to make it easier for studios to work with *fewer actual people*.

That’s literally one of Asteria’s big selling points, and if its #workflows became the industry norm, it is hard to imagine it scaling in a way that could accommodate today’s #entertainment #workforce transitioning into new #careers.

As for what’s good about it, Mooser knows the right talking points. Now he has to show that his #tech — and all the changes it entails — can work.”

#AI / #ZeroHourWork / #software / #tooling / #AITools <https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/694687/asteria-bryn-mooser-uncanny-valley-gen-ai>

“#AndrejKarpathy joined us at #AI #StartupSchool on June 17th (2025) with a clear message: #software is changing, again.

He sees a shift underway: we’ve entered the era of “Software 3.0,” where #M
#NaturalLanguage becomes the new #programming interface and #models do the rest. He explores what this shift means for #developers, #users, and the #design of #software itself— that we're not just using new #tools, but building a new kind of computer.”

#YCombinator / #VibeCoding / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ>

@loriemerson “The plight of the #tech grads, she told me, could be a warning for all entry-level #WhiteCollar workers.”

The market, betting on ‘Generative AI’ may turn out to be another VR, Multiverse or Crypto boom bust.

Change is happening in the tech / job market beyond just the markets ebb and flow; It can be measured in the dollars spent on #AI against redundancies of existing workers and reduced new hires as mentioned.

The question I ask myself, “Is the objective of the Tech Oligarchs to reduce human work hours by AI?”

#ZeroHourWork <https://archive.md/JESWb> (paywall free)

“Australian workers are facing a major upheaval as #ArtificialIntelligence (AI) becomes a cheaper alternative to employing humans.

While the full impact of #AI is yet to be reflected in #JobAds or official employment statistics, both #employers and #employees warn the #technology is already reshaping the nation's #LabourMarket.”

#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #Cost / #economics / #employment <https://abc.net.au/news/2025-06-21/ai-job-fears-accelerate-white-collar-grad-roles-threatened/105440772>

“The latest upheaval, brought by #ArtificialIntelligence (ai), is testing the #cockroaches as never before. #Advertising is one of the sectors most radically affected by ai so far. As such, adland offers a postcard from the future for other industries. Three lessons stand out.

The first is that the moat between human workers and chatbot rivals is narrower than most people think.

#CreativeWork is often seen as immune from #automation. Large language models (#LLM’s) are designed to predict the most likely answer, which is often the opposite of the most original one. The best ads remain too weird and wonderful for any machine to have dreamt up: consider the campaign that attached step-counters to chickens to advertise free-range eggs.

Yet this week in Cannes #TikTok, #Meta, #Google and other ad platforms showed off ai-powered features that can create passable video or rewrite ad copy at the click of a button. Their output will not win any awards. That does not matter. Most of the $1trn that is spent on ads each year goes towards workmanlike campaigns, rather than Cannes trophy-bait.

#SamAltman’s prediction that ai will one day be able to do 95% of #marketing may sound like boosterism for his firm, #OpenAI. But the inspired human-made content that people present as a counter-argument is firmly within the remaining 5%. Robots will content themselves with the rest.”

#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://economist.com/leaders/2025/06/19/what-the-cockroaches-of-the-ad-world-teach-about-dealing-with-ai> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/z9IuJ>by

“#Microsoft Corp. is planning to #axe thousands of #jobs, particularly in sales, as part of the company’s latest move to trim its workforce amid heavy spending on #ArtificialIntelligence.

The cuts are expected to be announced early next month, following the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year, according to people familiar with the matter. The reductions won’t exclusively affect #SalesTeams, and the timing could still change, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss a private matter.

The company declined to comment.

The #terminations would follow a previous round of #layoffs in May that hit 6,000 people and *fell hardest on #product and #engineering positions,* largely sparing customer-facing roles like sales and marketing.”

#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #AI / #software / #SoftwareEngineering <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-18/microsoft-planning-thousands-more-job-cuts-aimed-at-salespeople> (paywall)
/ <https://archive.md/C1GhO>

“This latest generation of #AI could change every job. I don’t think that is too much of an exaggeration,” said Peter Cheese, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the UK’s professional body for #HR and #People development.”

“Many #employers are cutting #jobs under the guise of #economic and #political uncertainty. But high profile examples of AI-driven #LayOffs in recent months, from #technology company #IBM to language learning app #Duolingo, are fuelling questions about whether a slash and burn of #Whitecollar roles is under way.”

#ZeroHourWork / #tech / #trend <https://www.ft.com/content/5009fd1e-85db-433f-aa2b-55d9b88b6481> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/00FPA>

“The #AIBoom has led to claims and concerns about a job wipeout caused by companies using AI to replace #work that had otherwise been done by #humans.

#DarioAmodei, the CEO of #Anthropic, the company behind the #GenerativeAI model #Claude, told Axios last week that AI could reduce entry-level #whitecollar jobs by 50% and result in 20% #unemployment in the next five years.

#TechWeenie / #ZeroHourWork <https://theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/us-attacks-on-science-and-research-a-great-gift-to-china-on-artificial-intelligence-former-openai-board-member-says>