OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shares his ‘chronic disappointment’ in Gen Z—they’re stuck on what ‘was cool five years ago,’ instead of embracing AI
Source: Fortune ·
Billionaire OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI will upend jobs—but young workers who embrace entrepreneurship could turn disruption into opportunity.
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Gen Z is entering a job market being turned upside down by AI—and according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the disruption is only getting started. But he thinks ambitious young workers have a chance to come out ahead if they’re willing to ditch the playbook and bet on what’s next. “It’s totally true that huge numbers of tasks that people do today will be done better, cheaper, and faster by AI—and completely differently,” Altman said in an interview last week with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. In turn, “wide swaths” of current jobs, at least as they’re done today, will be entirely handled by AI, Altman said. While he also cautioned that the transformation won’t happen as quickly as many people expect, the upheaval could create opportunities for ambitious workers willing to try something different by considering what new businesses could be built with AI. “My chronic disappointment with MBA students is that they always want to go do the thing that was cool five years ago rather…