This is one of those stories that makes you stop in your tracks and think: ‘Did he just say what I think he said? I think this is important.’ … And it is important. Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy is not saying AI may soon eliminate lots of corporate jobs. He’s saying it will eliminate lots of corporate jobs, reports the AP. And AI is going to create a lot of career turmoil in general. … The question is: Whose career turmoil? The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that white-collar workers are about to find out what blue-collar workers have been enduring for more than a generation now: massive outsourcing of their jobs. Except the jobs won’t be outsourced to workers in other countries. The jobs will be outsourced to AI. … What new jobs might be created in the process is the great unknown. But lots of career disruption is indeed coming.

Update – 6.23.25 – From the WSJ’s Allysia Finley: “When new technologies made manufacturing more efficient, many workers lost jobs and dropped out of the labor force. … College-educated young people face the same risk if they don’t develop intellectual vigor, curiosity and grit.”