The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.

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Gen Z is headed for a career calamity
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The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.::ChatGPT is commandeering the tasks that young employees rely on to advance their careers. That's going to crush Gen Z's career path.

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This was exactly the problem that Charles Murray pointed out in the bell curve. We're rapidly increasing the complexity of the available jobs (and the successful people can output 1000-1,000,000 times more than simple labor in the world of computers). It's the same concept as the industrial revolution, but to a greater degree.

The problem is that we're taking away the vast majority of the simple jobs. Even working at a fast food place isn't simple.

That alienates a good chunk of the population from being able to perform useful work.

That book is shit and should not be cited in any serious discussion. Here's a good video explaining why the book is full of racist shit: https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo

If it were full of shit, then you wouldn't be discussing the exact he pointed out in this book.

There is some racist discussion in there, but that's secondary and doesn't detract or impact his main point about what increasingly complex labor does to a society.