‘You feel radicalized’: A Meta AI exec watched agents beat her top workers. Now she’s built a nonprofit to help Gen Z find jobs before they disappear |
‘You feel radicalized’: A Meta AI exec watched agents beat her top workers. Now she’s built a nonprofit to help Gen Z find jobs before they disappear
Every job is an AI job now. That’s at least how Clara Shih sees it. The former AI exec at Meta and Salesforce, has seen the future of the job market, and it’s a workforce fully enabled by AI.
Shih has worked in AI for 20 years. But the turning point came for her last fall when she saw Meta’s AI agents match and even surpass some of her top employees across multiple tasks.
“In that moment I knew that nothing would ever be the same,” she told Fortune. “You feel radicalized in that moment when you see it working.”
Around the same time, Shih was hearing from the kids of friends and family members—some of whom are Ivy League graduates—about the impossibility of landing a job. That’s why she launched the New Work Foundation, a nonprofit organization, with consumer-facing brand Dear CC, aiming to train Gen Z for a future workplace dominated by AI agents.
“I realized that the only way to help people keep up with the pace of AI was to give them AI tools,” said Shih, who........