22 Articles about how AI is Affecting Jobs

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What Is Gen Z Supposed to Do When AI Takes Entry-Level Jobs? - New York Magazine  

AI Won’t Replace You — But Your Predictability Will. Here’s How to Stay Irreplaceable. - Entrepreneur

The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You’re Fired – Wall Street Journal

AI Broke Interviews – Yusuf Aytas

OpenAI looks to replace the drudgery of junior bankers’ workload - Bloomberg

Miran says impact of AI on labor ‘very difficult’ to predict - Semafor

Here’s what will really affect jobs in the age of AI – Washington Post

Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It. – New York Times

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity – Harvard Business Review  

Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow. (podcast) – New York Times 

AI is taking on live translations. But jobs and meaning are getting lost. - Washington Post

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI – Blood in the Machine

AI is causing anxiety about the future of the workforce. But are there AI-proof jobs? – NPR

AI is supercharging Gen Z workers — if they can land a job - Washington Post 

AI job anxiety: It's real, and coming at the worst time – Axios

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads – The Atlantic

5 ways job seekers can improve their AI literacy - Washington Post 

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting – The Atlantic  

Bosses are seeking ‘AI literate’ job candidates. What does that mean? - Washington Post 

AI-generated ‘workslop’ is here. It’s killing teamwork and causing a multimillion dollar productivity problem, researchers say – CNBC

Automation comes for tech jobs in the world capital of AI - Washington Post

Laid Off to Launch: A Toolkit for Journalists - News Revenue Hub

22 Articles about how Businesses are using AI

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The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You’re Fired – Wall Street Journal

Agentic brains and ‘digital gardeners’: How one CEO runs his AI office – Semafor

The British news publication The Times is using AI to model synthetic focus groups from human audiences – Digiday

AI Is Co-Writing Financial Reports. Here’s Why That Matters. – Wall Street Journal  

AI Is Teaching the Next Generation of M.B.A.s the Classic Case Study – Wall Street Journal  

By one estimate, 80 percent of U.S. stock gains this year came from A.I. companies. – Financial Times  

How Can Leaders Adapt to AI? – Wharton

‘Default to AI or Else,’ Says New Opendoor CEO in a Companywide Email. It’s a Lesson in Emotional Intelligence - Inc 

Visa preps for AI holiday shoppers, agentic commerce - Axios

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report – Financial Review

Morgan Stanley warns the AI boom may be running out of steam - Quartz

There Are Two Economies: A.I. and Everything Else - New York Times

An agreement with the AI startup to make AI movies can serve as a cautionary tale of the pitfalls of embracing a technology too early – The Wrap 

Why executives can’t afford to ignore Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) - MuckRack

Designing for humans: Why most enterprise adoptions of AI fail – Mark Greville  

Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal business of AI video - The Washington Post  

Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off. - New York Times 

GM Raided Silicon Valley to Build Its New AI Team. Here’s What It’s Doing. – Wall Street Journal 

An entrepreneurial revolution is coming across America - The Washington Post  

Taco Bell Rethinks Future of Voice AI at the Drive-Through – Wall Street Journal 

What's on the horizon for AI and public libraries? – Web Junction

AI’s Power Rush Lifts Smaller, Pricier Equipment Makers – Wall Street Journal

10 New Jobs that may Emerge from AI

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AI assessors – Someone in this role will evaluate models, keeping track of how they’ve improved, what they are best at doing, and how much they are hallucinating.

AI auditors – Someone who dig down into the A.I. to understand what it is doing and why and can then document it for technical, explanatory or liability purposes.  

AI consistency coordinator – This job is about ensuring digital replicas remains  consistent as changes are made.

AI consultants – This job involves helping businesses adopt and implement AI by offering a strategic roadmap, technical expertise, and project leadership. The AI consultant must facilitate communication between a company’s departments to marry technical knowledge with business needs.  After deployment of AI, it is their job to help set up ways to monitor the outcomes. Besides possessing a robust AI education, the AI consultant will have to stay on top of trends and changes in the industry.

AI engineers – Unlike traditional IT roles, people in this position will fix the AI when it breaks, digging through the layers to determine what went awry, why it went wrong and how to repair it. Like a plumber, they’ll snake the pipes to clear out the system and figure out how to avoid the problem next time. This will be particularly important when it comes to models that have been highly customized to the organization.

AI ethicist – This role will involve building chains of defensible logic that can be used to support decisions made by AI (or by hybrid A.I.-and-human teams) to address both ethical and legal concerns.

AI integrators – These are experts who figure out how to best use AI in a company, then implement it. These jobs will be technical in nature, requiring a deep understanding AI while possession a knowledge of the company so that that AI can meet real business needs.

AI personality director – This person fine-tune the “personality” of the AI so that its style of interacting with employees and customers fits with the organization’s ethos. This can become an integral part of a company’s branding.

AI trainer – This is the job of helping the AI find and digest the best, most useful data and then teach the AI to respond in accurate and helpful ways.

AI translator (trust director) – People who understand AI well enough to explain its mechanics to others in the business, particularly to leaders and managers, so that they can make effective decisions. These workers will not only explain what the AI output means (especially when it is technical) but how trustworthy the information and conclusions are. This role may fall under that of compliance officer, helping organizations understand contracts and report written by AI.  

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How AI is Changing Entry Level Jobs

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Rather than have rookie employees compile reports or write memos — things the A.I. is good at — you might have them start, say, creating new ideas for products right away. Traditionally, this kind of work would be reserved for deeply experienced workers, but it won’t need to stay that way. By empowering young, inexperienced workers, A.I. can enable them to be more entrepreneurial, faster. And this means that a greater range of the organization — with a wider range of perspectives — can be hunting for new great ideas or new areas for growth rather than busying themselves with repetitive office tasks. -New York Times 

Getting hired in the age of AI

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If you can say you worked a job where you had to show resiliency and adaptability, those are things that employers are looking for. We are individuals with unique experiences, unique energy and unique resilience. That's what we're going to get hired for. – Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20250825-aneesh-raman-young-people-employment-opportunities-katty-kay-interview

AI automation versus collaboration

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"Using AI well will require knowing when to automate versus when to collaborate. This is not necessarily a binary choice, and the boundaries between human expertise and AI’s capabilities for expert judgment will continually evolve as AI’s capabilities advance. Although collaboration is not intrinsically better than automation, premature or excess automation—that is, automation that takes on entire jobs when it’s ready for only a subset of job tasks—is generally worse than collaboration." -David Autor and James Manyika writing in The Atlantic 

CS Grads Can't Find Jobs

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A recent graduate triple-majored in computer science, math, and computational science and has completed the coursework for a computer-science Ph.D. He would prefer to work instead of finishing his degree, but he has found it almost impossible to secure a job. “We’re in an AI revolution, and I am a specialist in the kind of AI that we’re doing the revolution with, and I can’t find anything.” -The Atlantic

AI's impact on the job search by college grads

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"Recent history grads have a lower unemployment rate (4.6 percent) than recent computer science grads (6.1 percent), according to the New York Federal Reserve Bank. History is one of the most popular college majors among congressional staff members, and historians find work in some surprising places, such as the National Security Agency and the American Girl doll company." -Washington Post

Businesses Racing to Adopt AI: Speed without Control

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If you don’t take steps now to centralize AI strategy, you’ll be left with a patchwork of disconnected tools, uncontrolled costs, and compliance nightmares. The winners in this era won’t be the ones who adopt AI fast, they’ll be the ones who adopt it wisely. Shadow AI isn’t going away; it’s going to accelerate as AI becomes embedded. -Unite AI

18 Articles about how AI is Affecting Jobs

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Define Success Upfront

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Before implementing AI solutions, define success upfront: “I insist on quantifiable metrics like time savings, quality improvements, or revenue increases. If we can’t measure it, we can’t prove it worked. This prevents scope creep and ensures we’re solving real problems, not just building cool technology. AI isn’t always the answer, but when it is, we know exactly why we’re using it and what success looks like.” -Claudia Ng in Toward Data Science

How will AI affect my job?

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The answer to the question, “How will AI affect my job?” might be better stated: “Does AI look like it is going to do the most highly skilled parts of my job or the low-skill parts?” If it’s the former, your pay and business value will fall. If it’s the latter where AI can do the mundane parts of your job for you, then you might get paid more (and it might get more fun). 

15 Articles about how Businesses are using AI

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The Question that Will Predict How AI Impacts Your Job

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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 expert work is devalued. -Tim Harford

20 Articles about how AI is Affecting Jobs

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Job listings looking for people with AI skills are rising fast – CBS News

How AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours – Washington Post  

One in 12 US/UK Employees Uses Chinese GenAI Tools – InfoSecurity Mag

Will AI really wipe out white collar jobs? Tech insiders are split - CNN

Gen Z's broken school-to-work pipeline – Axios  

A robot stole my internship: How Gen Z’s entry into the workplace is being affected by AI – The Conversation

The rise of the AI-native employee – Elena’s Growth Scoop  

The new hot job in AI: forward-deployed engineers – Semafor

AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Everybody needs to get ready. - Washington Post

Welcome to Your Job Interview. Your Interviewer Is A.I. – New York Times

AI is transforming Indian call centers. What does it mean for workers? - Washington Post  

Freelancers in AI earn over 40% more per hour than those doing non-AI work, according to Upwork’s platform data of - Axios 

Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced? - New York Times

The four-day work week gets a new booster: AI - Axios

CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs – Wall Street Journal 

As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI – The Guardian

How AI Vibe Coding Is Destroying Junior Developers' Careers -  Final Round AI

Will AI really wipe out white collar jobs? Tech insiders are split - CNN

AI is radically changing entry-level jobs, but not eliminating them – CNBC

‘Workforce crisis’: key takeaways for graduates battling AI in the jobs market - The Guardian

SEO Fades as GEO Rises

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“Google has made it clear: AI is building the future of search. Google now ranks based on contextual relevance, not just keywords or backlinks. It uses AI and vector embeddings to evaluate who created content, how trustworthy it is, and how it fits within its broader knowledge graph. Most SEO tools and practices haven’t caught up. As new APIs and metrics become more accessible, we’ll see a new generation of SEO roles and tools emerge that align with how Google actually works.” -Digiday