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College grads are lab rats in the Great AI Experiment
When companies are advised to treat ChatGPT like an intern, what happens to entry-level jobs?
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Artificial intelligence is analysing documents, writing briefing notes, creating PowerPoint presentations or handling customer service queries, and now the younger humans who normally do that work are struggling to find jobs.
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Parmy Olson
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Companies are eliminating the grunt work that used to train young professionals – and they do not seem to have a clear plan for what comes next.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is analysing documents, writing briefing notes, creating PowerPoint presentations or handling customer service queries, and – surprise! – now the younger humans who normally do that sort of work are struggling to find jobs.

