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Wall Street Journal
13 hours ago
- General
- Wall Street Journal
Transgenderism Turns the World Upside Down
While reading Jessica Hart Steinmann and Leigh Ann O'Neill's op-ed 'Transgenderism Won't Let Girls Say No' (June 6), I was reminded of a 17th-century English ditty: 'If buttercups buzz'd after the bee, if boats were on land, churches on sea; if ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows, and cats should be chased into holes by the mouse; if the mamas sold their babies to the gypsies for half a crown; if summer were spring and the other way round, then all the world would be upside down.'
Bloomberg
05-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
LinkedIn Exec Says AI 'Taking Over' Entry-Level Work
CC-Transcript 00:00A lot of folks saw your op ed, and I think it struck a nerve with a lot of folks, both those who are for I and against it. We always talk in these extremes about whether it is going to be the salvation that takes us to great heights or the thing that basically just dooms us all to some sort of, you know, terminator like apocalypse. I am curious about what we can see in the data about the impact on jobs and whether it really will remove a significant number of jobs that we need in our market. Yeah, First, thanks for having me. I know we're all looking at the jobs numbers tomorrow trying to figure out what those job numbers are going to say. I think when you talk about AI's impact on work, it's not going to show up cleanly or clearly in month to month reports. It's going to play out over years and largely in jobs changing, not just getting added or lost. I think it is way too early to have an absolute prediction about net employment because as we know, in every new era for our economy, jobs get created as much as they get disrupted. But we need to start focusing on how jobs are going to change because that's already happening. I wrote this piece in The New York Times that you called out about entry level jobs at first rung on the career ladder because they're breaking down a bit. And I think we need to talk about that more. We're seeing this sort of perfect storm between the uncertainty in the macro environment and then the very real disruption we're starting to see from taking on more and more of the tasks at entry level work. We've got to get focused. They're both better training workers as they come into the workforce and then up leveling those jobs that they go into. That's where I think we are going to be focused. Well, that's what I'm curious about, because there's a lot of people that are trying to draw analogies to what we saw with the Internet move boom, which of course, was supposed to kill a lot of jobs. And it did kill jobs, but it also created more jobs than it killed. It was just in slightly different fields. And that required a shift. And we now know, of course, there are some folks that weren't able to shift, particularly in the manufacturing space. But I wonder if it's just going to be kind of a repeat of that where certain aspects of our economy will certainly take a hit, but at least in aggregate, will make up for that in other areas? Yeah, And I think right now the big thing everyone should realize is that every one of our jobs at every stage of our careers, at every company in every country, is going to get affected by how this technology is going to change work. And so we all need to lean into it. And that moment that we're in now is really about the strategies we have as individuals, as companies, as countries to get to better. A lot of what's going to happen is dependent upon what we do right now. As I think about you mentioned, you know, electricity, the Internet, the general purpose technologies that have played out since the industrial revolution, steam engine, electricity, the Internet. Now, I see a lot of what I started thinking about early on is, is this more like electricity or the Internet? And the reason I was asking that is electricity definitely changed work, but work for humans was still largely physical labor. We just moved from the farms to the factory. The internet changed work at a deeper level. It brought intellectual labor into the economy, not just physical labor. I think what is about to do is change work similar to the Internet, and it's going to mean that we're all going to index more on our unique human skills that allow us to imagine, to invent, to innovate things they can help us with but not replicate in terms of our strength as a species. And so we've got to start redesigning systems of education, employment, entrepreneurship. We've got to help new grads and everyone realize you've got to lean into this and everything about how I learned everything about what you're curious about. It's a whole new world. I'm sorry. And you still. But is it too late for that? I mean, when we look at how fast AI has sort of crept up on us and you look at some of the predictions about how it's going to be involved in your life, we're not talking ten, 20 years from now. You have folks talking about, you know, two, three years from now, I am radically pro human. So, no, it is not too late because every one of us can start to shore up the unique human skills we have in us. Look, there's a great debate about how quickly this is all going to play out in terms of work. Two years, 20 years. A lot of it comes down to the stories we tell, the ability to push through the fear and anxiety and start using these tools at work. You're seeing a lot of companies stall out in terms of the productivity gains because they don't have the adoption happening, because they don't have the culture change in place. I think we've got time. I think we've got time to get organized around this. I know for sure every individual watching this has a moment right now where they can start to lean into this. But we've got time at a company level, at a country level across sectors to get organized. We just need to start having these discussions. Now, I am curious and I do want to go back to this idea and you kind of touched on this in your op ed and there been a few other folks, prominent folks have also pointed this thing out, this idea of entry level jobs, which at least right now seem to be the ripest area for AI to supplant. And the idea is that, well, if you don't have an entry level job for folks, how do they get to that second tier? Right. I mean, we all most of us in our careers, we started out on that bottom rung. And a lot of the lessons that we learned on that bottom rung is what helped us get to the top rung. If that bottom rung isn't there. What is that you're. Directory to the top, if at all. Yeah. I think the biggest thing we all have to do is stop seeing jobs as titles. Every job is a set of tasks and every job, whether you're a new hire, the CEO, there's certain tasks. It is going to do more and more on its own, on certain tasks you're going to do with. So you've got to be fluent in the AI and the tools and then certain tasks you're going to do more and more uniquely as a human. If you think about entry level work, the wrong question is, is it going or is it staying? The right question is how is it changing? And so we talk about some of this in the op ed, KPMG new grads are working on higher level tax assignments because AI is handling the basics. A law firm in the UK, early career lawyers are being trained on complex contracts, not just document review. What you're seeing there is that role changing. You've got folks coming in and we call out some of the educational institutions that are doing this trained on AI and the tools and then better jobs that they're coming into. So I really think entry level work is going to go from kind of the basement to the lobby or the lobby to the first floor. It's still going to be there and companies are still going to need young workers to come in more than ever to bring fresh thinking, to help them innovate, and eventually to be the leaders at those companies down the line.
Washington Post
03-06-2025
- General
- Washington Post
Former Homeland Security official fights back against Trump's 'unprecedented' investigation order
WASHINGTON — A former Homeland Security official during President Donald Trump's first administration who authored an anonymous op-ed sharply critical of the president is calling on independent government watchdogs to investigate after Trump ordered the department to look into his government service. Miles Taylor , once chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, warned in an interview with The Associated Press of the far-reaching implications of Trump's April 9 memorandum , 'Addressing Risks Associated with an Egregious Leaker and Disseminator of Falsehoods,' when it comes to suppressing criticism of the president. That memo accused Taylor of concocting stories to sell his book and directed the secretary of Homeland Security and other government agencies to look into Taylor and strip him of any security clearances.
Wall Street Journal
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘I Would Say.' Please, Don't
Brenda Cronin hits a variety of language abuses in her op-ed 'In Closure, May I Say That 'Been a Minute' Is Legend' (May 29): Here's another: 'I would say' is now ubiquitous when an interviewee then says whatever he wishes to say. Please, just say it. Can you imagine someone writing, 'I would write,' and then making his point in writing? Michael Y. Warder Sr.
Wall Street Journal
22-05-2025
- Science
- Wall Street Journal
How Teachers Can Defeat AI
As someone also in the academic trenches, I appreciated John J. Goyette's op-ed 'How to Stop Students From Cheating With AI' (May 20). My plan for the autumn semester is to offer an old-school approach: Students who take handwritten notes in physical notebooks will be allowed to take exams 'open book.' Hopefully this will disincentivize using computers in the classroom and reinstill in students the value of note-taking. Perhaps this will even lead to the return of some creative doodling. Prof. Eric Zolov
