Der KI-Experte des MIT warnt davor, dass die Automatisierung von Einstiegsjobs der Generation Z nach hinten losgehen könnte – und Unternehmen ihre künftigen Arbeitskräfte kosten könnte
https://fortune.com/2026/05/01/automating-gen-z-entry-level-jobs-could-backfire-mit-ai-researcher-andrew-mcafee-talent-pipelines-at-risk/
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Companies are banking on replacing their entire workforce with AI before this happens.
That’s a problem for the future. Since when has any company cared about more than the next quarter
Companies don’t think long term. They are just looking for next earnings call. The stock pops based on number of times AI is mentioned.
It will backfire because AI brand itself is not very well liked by general public. The only people excited about it are the ones working on it. Even the employees who are forced to use it don’t like it (for other reasons).
but companies dont want a workforce
Companies outsourcing entry level jobs to India will face a similar dilemma in the future when they are looking for experienced workers.
No shit that if you don’t teach people how to do their job, they will not know how to do it. Incredible 4D chess from all these management morons automating entry jobs
Why did this take an MIT expert to figure out, reducing your org structure means less talent pipeline except for for more automation via software.
Corporations are focusing on nothing but short term profits. They will profit as much as they can, and when the time comes they will rehire at the lowest cost as possible. This is how modern Capitalism works.
Yeah, companies don’t care about employees but earnings, if replacing workforce with AI gives them more money that’s enough for them, at least until the bubble bursts.
Their parents raising them on tablets and not reinforcing the value of actually learning things in school is already in the process of destroying the future workforce.
Gotta think of today’s shareholders, not tomorrow’s bagholders.
The only thing that matters is the next 4 quarters fuck the future
They’ll just outsource or insource.
Captain obvious enters the room…
>and cost companies their future workforce
Right, but the plan is to automate their *future* workforce, so they’re starting with their *starter* (Gen-Z aged entry-level) workforce first, in order to get good at it before stepping things up.
Cost companies their future workforce… Isn’t that the idea?
It shouldn’t take someone from MIT to point this out.
I feel like getting companies to understand this is along the same lines as getting teenagers to not do drugs/alcohol and sex. The smart ones will.. but the rest is too tempted to listen
I say we automate from the top down, starting with CEOs because we all know the higher up the food chain you go the less work there actually is.
“Genius” tech bros won’t care, they’ll have billions to cushion them from any fallout.
Companies only care about next quarter’s profits, asking them to think a year ahead is too much, let alone several decades.
I tried to call Walmart on a delivery that never arrived. Spent 45 minutes on the phone with an „AI operator“ that did the same thing as or 4 or 5 years ago with an „intelligent operation“. AI is absolute trash.
Every company that hears this will think „That’s something for other companies to worry about. I will still do it myself“.
And so they will all wind up doing it anyway.
And we can’t do manufacturing after shipping the know-how to China.
Short term gains, long term pains.
Or. It could force CEOs to come up with new entry level jobs that AI and robots can’t do, in order to keep an actual revolution from happening – to instead transform corporations and the government at its core.
Public companies live one quarter at a time and don’t care about the future
Stockholders only care about two quarters.
“Could”? How can anyone get a senior-level job if there are no entry-level jobs?
It’s all about short term gains and the next quarter results for stock holders now to get that price up.
Surely this is just common sense?
Uh sir, that’s highly anti-capitalist of you. Think of my geriatric shareholders who want to go on one last Super-Cruise before their heart gives out? Do you think THEY or my Bonus can last till next quarter?
Literally everyone with a minimum common sense has been saying this since the AI layoffs began.
“NOT MY PROBLEM! I’M JUST PASSING THE PROBLEM ON TO THE NEXT GUY!”
Its obvious, companies will especially when the AI companies are stating that they’re losing money with the current pricing, but they’re keeping the price low to gain market adoption. So once companies are replacing more and more people with AI thats when the prices are going to skyrocket, Nvidia have already said that AI now costs more than having a human.
Where I live, entry level jobs were disappearing for the last 2 years already, mostly those jobs are being out sourced to places like India and Romania. But with this huge push for AI to do jobs, companies are not replacing staff that have left due to retirement or because they’ve found a better job.
When this backfires for companies and they’ll need to hire people again they’ll actually have to train people to do the jobs they need doing because over time people that have the expertise or people who would be interested in doing a particular job will have moved on. So there will no longer be that unicorn that every company is after.
If they thought the cobol programmers shortage was bad, wait until all the “conductor” vibe coders age out in the next decade. However working with AI everyday and trying to train someone to do what I do as a senior architect and programmer this strategy will not be the productive montage they think it is.