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Executives Tell Gen Z to Combine AI Fluency With Human Skills for Evolving Job Market

Industry leaders emphasize that emotional intelligence will be the most valuable complement to AI proficiency as Gen Z navigates a transformed entry-level job market.

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Billionaire Reid Hoffman tells Gen Z the secret to surviving the AI job bloodbath isn’t mastering prompts—but rather leaning on the human skills tech can’t replicate.
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Overview

  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that automation could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs within years, describing it as a potential 'bloodbath' for recent graduates.
  • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy predicts generative AI will reduce corporate headcounts but says employees who help build and improve AI capabilities will remain in high demand.
  • Reid Hoffman brands Gen Z as "AI-native" and urges graduates to showcase their comfort with AI tools to stand out in job applications.
  • Hoffman identifies emotional intelligence, ethical discernment, creative expression and intention as irreplaceable skills that no AI can replicate.
  • Hoffman stresses that friendship-driven human networks remain a powerful counterbalance to AI’s efficiency and encourages entrepreneurial projects using AI tools.