Overview

• Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy says AI-driven efficiencies will allow the company to shrink its workforce and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff reports that AI now performs up to half of its operations.
• Experts warn that entry-level white-collar roles face the greatest automation risk, with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei projecting half of those positions could disappear in the next five years.
• For the first time in three years, research from Oxford Economics shows unemployment for recent college graduates has surpassed the overall U.S. rate.
• Surveys from the Upwork Research Institute reveal that while AI increases productivity by around 40 percent, heavy users report high burnout and growing disconnection from colleagues.
• Organizations, universities and policymakers are launching reskilling programs and reimagining talent pipelines to equip workers for AI-augmented roles.