While AI wipes out entry-level roles, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it’s actually ‘the most exciting time to be starting out one’s career’

Apparently as if the garbage fire in the labor market early for General Z – full of Ghost Jobs and artificial intelligence agents – SAM Altman said he was really “the most exciting time to start his career, perhaps at all.”
“I think so [a] Altman said in an episode of an episode of People beforeTf Podcast with Necal Kamt.
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But Gen Z does not suffer from the same exciting labor market as Altman describes. Beginner jobs for new ambitious graduates decrease, as employers expect young people to come completely. Chatgpt and artificial intelligence employees take care of beginners in the novice employees used by Gen Zers to start their journey to the ladder of companies, and the dream of landing in a six -digit technical position after the college has become a distant reality. Some General Zires are looking for their first jobs in Chipotle instead.
As a result of the costs of high academic fees and the frustrating white collar market, the Gen Z mode is so comfortable that 4.3 million young men are now Neps: not in education, employment or training.
Altman says that he envies the functional options of Gen Z today
Although many young job seekers are despair, the technology leader said he envies young because his early professional functions will look “boring” in comparison. He said that Gen Z will explore the solar energy system acceptable, and will explore functions with high sky salaries.
He added: “If I am twenty -two years old and graduate from college, I will feel the most fortunate in history.”
The founder of the billionaire compared the current artificial intelligence revolution to how computers changed the work world when it was growing up.
“People are now not limited to the quality and creativity of their ideas,” said Openai CEO of Openai, adding that developments in artificial intelligence work to transform programming, accelerate scientific discovery, and enable the types of new software completely.
However, in the labor market where the first staircase of the ladder disappears thanks to artificial intelligence, Altman’s optimism is a reminder that the success of the Gen Z will be determined by how to combine tools in their next role.
Divide the founders of technology into artificial intelligence
Altman is not alone in his optimism about artificial intelligence. The use of artificial intelligence to improve productivity in the workplace can open more jobs in the future, although there is some functional “dislocation” for novice graduates.
In addition, Lisa Soo, CEO of AMD, does not think Amnesty International is to cause huge losses in jobs, but it recognizes anxiety about technology innovation is a natural feeling.
On the other hand, other technology leaders have warned against the threat of artificial intelligence of beginners roles and the fully white business market. Dario Amoudi, CEO of Anthropor, said that artificial intelligence can erase approximately 50 % of all jobs with white collars in beginners within five years, causing unemployment up to 20 %.
The chief employee of the economic opportunities in LinkedIn Inch Raman chanted this feeling. Raman said that artificial intelligence is increasingly threatening the types of jobs that were historically as a step for young workers who have just started their career.
He said: “Although the technology sector feels the first waves of change, which reflects the dependence of collective artificial intelligence in this field, it is expected that the erosion of traditional tasks for beginners in fields such as financing, travel, food and professional services as well.”
2025-08-15 16:17:00