‘We’ve given them the short end of the stick’: Business school professor says AI could eliminate many jobs for young people—even as they lead innovation |
‘We’ve given them the short end of the stick’: Business school professor says AI could eliminate many jobs for young people—even as they lead innovation
Artificial intelligence has inspired visions of a near-utopian future: cures for cancer, breakthroughs in space, and even a world where money matters less. But the people who will experience that future the most may also be the ones most harmed by it now.
Speaking at Fortune’s Workplace Innovation Summit on Wednesday, Jeff DeGraff—clinical professor of management and organizations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business—admitted young people are increasingly driving the newest forms of innovation—often outside traditional corporate structures.
“Look to young people, they’re creating federations of meaning, they’re trying to cure river blindness in these loose affiliations, they’re creating walkways for animals,” he told Fortune C-Suite and Leadership Editor Ruth Umoh. “They’re doing things outside the traditional industrial structure.”
Yet despite their desires to transform the world toward a bright future, DeGraff said society has failed to adequately prepare young people for the AI transition.
“We’ve sort of given the short end of the stick,” he........