OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that firms are utilizing AI agents (packages that run autonomously to carry out advanced duties) as in the event that they had been junior employees.
“You hear those that speak about their job now’s to assign work to a bunch of [AI] brokers, have a look at the standard, work out the way it matches collectively, give suggestions,” Altman stated on Monday in the course of the keynote dialog on the Snowflake Summit 2025, per Business Insider. “It sounds loads like how they work with a staff of nonetheless comparatively junior staff.”
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In the meantime, a report last month from enterprise capital agency SignalFire discovered that AI has already led to a 25% lower in entry-level hires from 2023 to 2024 at Meta, Microsoft, and Google. SignalFire’s head of analysis, Asher Bantock, informed TechCrunch that AI was responsible for the decline in entry-level tech roles, because it takes over extra routine duties usually carried out by junior staff.
At consulting agency McKinsey, AI is performing duties normally reserved for junior staff, like creating PowerPoint shows and drafting proposals. McKinsey wrote in July 2024 that AI may change up to 375 million jobs by 2030.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Photographs
Different trade leaders have daring predictions about how rapidly AI will take over entry-level jobs. Dario Amodei, 42, the CEO of the $61.5 billion firm Anthropic, told Axios last week that AI may get rid of half of all entry-level white-collar jobs inside the subsequent one to 5 years, inflicting unemployment to rise as excessive as 20%.
“It sounds loopy, and folks simply do not imagine it,” Amodei informed Axios.
