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fromBusiness Insider
6 days ago

From coders to creatives: Jon Gray breaks down potential winners and losers of the AI era

It was the famous scene where Dustin Hoffman's character gets pulled aside by one of his parents' friends at his own college graduation party for some awkward career advice. "I just want to say one word to you," says the Mr. McGuire character, "Power." In the original scene, McGuire said, "plastics," reflecting the space-age economy of the 1960s. The message behind Gray's edit was that power is the new plastics in an age of electricity-hungry AI.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

What happens when the people building the AIs are replaced by robots?

AI automation is replacing human oversight roles, eroding invisible labor and increasing risks as white-collar jobs face displacement within years.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Powell says AI may be hurting entry-level jobs: 'Hard to say how big it is'

AI is already affecting the job market, particularly reducing entry-level hiring for recent college graduates, while overall job creation has slowed.
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