How Companies Deploy AI Is Vital
This isn’t the first study to suggest that prospects for entry-level candidates are bleaker following the rapid deployment of AI. However, the Stanford researchers found that a company’s attitude towards AI implementation was a key factor in determining the number of opportunities available to candidates.
While businesses who view AI as a replacement for human workers are hiring less, those looking to use the technology to augment their human workforce are hiring more.
There is certainly evidence of companies taking a heavy-handed approach to AI — Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently admitted to firing engineers who didn’t take on AI. However, an attitude that allows workers to use the technology to help them with their daily tasks, rather than replace them altogether, is surely the best way forward.