LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says Gen Z graduates are 'enormously attractive' to employers for one reason

• The emergence of AI has sparked fears that it volition origin jobs to disappear.

• But Reid Hoffman says young radical should clasp AI successful their occupation hunt.

• The LinkedIn cofounder said AI cognition would marque them "enormously attractive" to employers.

Reid Hoffman, the task capitalist who cofounded LinkedIn, says young radical should usage their familiarity with AI arsenic a selling constituent erstwhile seeking work.

"You are procreation AI. You are AI native. So bringing the information that you person AI successful your instrumentality acceptable is 1 of the things that makes you enormously attractive," Hoffman said successful a video helium published connected his YouTube transmission connected Thursday.

Hoffman was addressing questions sent successful by assemblage students connected however they should champion navigate the occupation hunt. Several students had asked Hoffman astir AI's interaction connected their employment prospects.

Hoffman said successful his video that AI's interaction connected jobs was a "legitimate worry," but helium added that students could effort to usage it to their advantage.

"Look, connected this side, it's transforming the workspace, entry-level work, employers' confusion," helium said. "But connected this side, it's making you capable to amusement your unsocial capabilities. That, you know, successful an situation with a clump of older people, you mightiness beryllium capable to assistance them out."

A typical for Hoffman did not respond to a petition for remark from Business Insider.

The emergence of AI has sparked fears that companies could extremity up hiring less radical successful the years to come. Last month, the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, said successful an interrogation with Axios that AI mightiness hitch retired fractional of each entry-level bureau jobs.

In the interview, Amodei besides said unemployment could scope 20% wrong 5 years.

"Most of them are unaware that this is astir to happen," helium said. "It sounds crazy, and radical conscionable don't judge it."

Not each concern leaders hold with Amodei's dire prediction.

Jensen Huang, the CEO of the spot elephantine Nvidia, told reporters connected the sidelines of VivaTech 2025 successful Paris this week that Amodei was wrong.

"I beauteous overmuch disagree with astir everything helium says," Huang said. "He thinks AI is truthful scary, but lone they should bash it."

Huang said that portion immoderate jobs would disappear, AI could besides make caller occupation opportunities.

"Do I deliberation AI volition alteration jobs? It volition alteration everyone's — it's changed mine," Huang said.

Mark Cuban had a akin effect to Amodei's comments arsenic Huang. The "Shark Tank" prima wrote successful a BlueSky station past period that AI would create, and not destroy, jobs.

"Someone needs to punctual the CEO that astatine 1 constituent determination were much than 2m secretaries. There were besides abstracted employees to bash successful bureau dictation. They were the archetypal achromatic collar displacements," Cuban wrote.

"New companies with caller jobs volition travel from AI and summation TOTAL employment," helium added.

Correction: June 13, 2025 — An earlier mentation of this communicative misstated Dario Amodei's comments. Axios had paraphrased him arsenic saying that the unemployment complaint could scope 20% wrong 5 years, not that helium expected it to emergence by arsenic overmuch arsenic 20% during that time.

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