AI and the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder
Seven years on, this discussion is more salient than ever. The world’s most valuable companies are locked in an AI arms race, and predictions on when we will reach artificial general intelligence (when AI matches human cognitive capabilities) run rampant. Major news outlets report mounting pressure on young people, especially recent and prospective college graduates, struggling to find jobs in the software sector that once teemed with demand for new hires.
- ▪Seven years on, this discussion is more salient than ever.
- ▪The world’s most valuable companies are locked in an AI arms race, and predictions on when we will reach artificial general intelligence (when AI matches human cognitive capabilities) run rampant.
- ▪Major news outlets report mounting pressure on young people, especially recent and prospective college graduates, struggling to find jobs in the software sector that once teemed with demand for new hires.
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| Original publisher | Berkeley Economic Review |
| Canonical URL | https://econreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/ai-and-the-bottom-rung-of-the-career-ladder/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:56:46 +0000 |
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Technology & InnovationAI and the Bottom Rung of the Career LadderIn a Berkeley Economic Review article from 2018, Vatsal Bajaj anticipates that artificial intelligence may create a “new social class.” Drawing on comparisons to the Industrial Revolution and citing historian Yuval Noah Harari’s theory on…By Richard Li|Edited by Izzy Bayani|March 18, 2026|6 min readIn a Berkeley Economic Review article from 2018, Vatsal Bajaj anticipates that artificial intelligence may create a “new social class.” Drawing on comparisons to the Industrial Revolution and citing historian Yuval Noah Harari’s theory on the creation of a “useless class,” he surveys a range of views on the large-scale impacts of automation by artificial intelligence. Seven years on, this discussion is more salient than ever.
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