AI is flattening the jobs market for young people, says Sunak

"There are reasons to be worried and think about the future. But we are able to do something about this."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"Flat is the new up."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"We should be thinking about, well, how do we tip the balance in favour of AI being used in that positive way… to help people do their jobs better [rather than replacing them]."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"We are an AI superpower any which way you look at it."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"We should be thinking about, well, how do we tip the balance in favour of AI being used in that positive way… to help people do their jobs better [rather than replacing them]."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"There are reasons to be worried and think about the future. But we are able to do something about this."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"That's why I think we do have to look at this issue very seriously and with purpose."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"We are an AI superpower any which way you look at it."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"There are reasons to be worried and think about the future. But we are able to do something about this."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"That's why I think we do have to look at this issue very seriously and with purpose."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"We shouldn't rely on companies to mark their own homework."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"Breaking first is the bottom rung of the career ladder."

— Aneesh Raman , Executive

"There is a lot of power in the junior employees, but you can’t leverage them the same way that you would in the past."

— Timothy Young , Executive

"AI can’t completely replace a job."

— Chris Hyams , Executive

"It seems it’s a much smaller and much slower transition than you might imagine."

— Anders Humlum , Academic

"A lot of entry-level work when you’re fresh out of college is knowledge-intensive jobs where you’re collecting data, transcribing data, and putting together basic visualizations, and learning the organization from the ground up."

— Tristan L. Botelho , Academic

"I think there could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market, because firms are finding that AI is making their workers so productive that they don’t necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on."

— Kevin Hassett , Executive

"It is true that AI is starting to show up more clearly in the data."

— Jan Hatzius , Academic

"flat is the new up"

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"if AI makes businesses more productive and profitable, then taxing those profits rather than taxing the act of hiring captures the same revenue without penalising employment."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs."

— Dario Amodei , Executive

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is flattening the jobs market for young people and governments should eliminate National Insurance to make hiring workers more attractive."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician

"Graduates' concerns about getting entry-level jobs are justified."

— Rishi Sunak , Politician