According to an Indeed survey, over thirty percent of those aged 18 to 24 express fear that the introduction of AI will significantly impact the employment landscape.
The general consensus is that Gen Zers spend much of their time in front of screens. As a result, they may be ideally suited to work with artificial intelligence. However, it doesn’t seem to be the case as Gen Z seems more fearful than their elders of losing their jobs as a result of technology.
Based on an Indeed survey cited by Fortune magazine, over 30% of individuals aged 18 to 24 fear that the introduction of AI would significantly impact the employment landscape. Only 15% of their more senior coworkers worry that artificial intelligence will cause them to lose their jobs, indicating that their older colleagues are less alarmist.
The fact that in contrast to their elders, members of Generation Z have not been in the workforce long enough to have witnessed a significant technological revolution could help to explain this. “It is possible that more senior employees had seen this item previously. They experienced the emergence of the PC and the internet,” Indeed’s head of AI innovation Hannah Calhoon told Fortune.
Some fairly bleak reports undoubtedly add to the anxieties of young workers. According to estimates from the American bank Goldman Sachs, generative AI systems such as ChatGPT have the potential to affect around 300 million full-time employees globally. According to estimates made by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and OpenAI, at least 10% of the jobs performed by 80% of US workers may change as a result of the introduction of AI tools. They contend that workers with the highest levels of qualification will need to get ready for more changes in their working environment than individuals with lower levels of qualification.
Given this, it’s hardly surprising that younger generations, who often have greater educational attainment than their older counterparts, are feeling intimidated by the potential changes to their jobs that artificial intelligence may bring about. You can be sure, though, that businesses are still using this technology at a comparatively low rate.
By learning AI, recent graduates can thus foresee the needs of their future employment. By doing this, they will be able to learn new skills and become more marketable at the start of what the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has named the “AI revolution.”
*Over 3,500 leaders and 3,743 job seekers from the UK, USA, Canada, India, France, Japan, and Germany participated in this Indeed study.
