AI is a power tool. People are essential for using it
Source: Fortune ·
For new graduates, AI fluency paired with sound judgment can be a competitive advantage.
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Young people are worried that AI may consign them to the unemployment line. Nearly nine in ten recent and upcoming graduates worry AI could replace entry-level roles, according to a recent Monster survey. But AI won’t eliminate skilled workers. It will change what they can accomplish. In industry after industry, the advantage will belong to people who can wield this powerful technology with sound judgment. This isn’t the first time a transformative technology has inspired predictions of mass job displacement. When spreadsheets arrived in the 1980s, people worried accountants would become obsolete. Search engines were supposed to replace researchers and librarians. Instead, those technologies automated routine work — and increased the value of workers who could analyze information, solve problems, and advise people. MIT economist David Autor argued in a recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper that AI’s greatest economic opportunity may lie in extending expertise rather than…