These two pieces of news look very magical together

First: ByteDance's North America Seed team is offering recent graduates an annual salary of 1.8 million dollars, 10 million RMB

Second: Anthropic released the "AI's Impact on the Labor Market Research Report" on March 5

The core conclusion is: AI has not significantly increased unemployment 😂

The report introduced a new metric: AI Exposure

Simply put, it refers to the degree to which a profession is affected by AI

1⃣ Professions most easily impacted by AI, see the chart

Their common characteristic is a high reliance on text, logic, and information processing

In the past, automation primarily impacted blue-collar manufacturing

But AI's first wave of impact is on: highly educated knowledge workers

2⃣ Employment hasn't decreased, but it's harder for newcomers to enter the industry

The report also contains an important statistic: the entry rate for newcomers aged 22-25 has dropped by about 14%

In other words: companies are not undergoing large-scale layoffs, but they have started to stop hiring new employees

Reduced hiring → Organizational downsizing → Some positions disappearing

3⃣ The impact of AI on employment is not a sudden explosion, but a gradual compression of entry points

And as illustrated by the example of the multimillion-dollar salary at the beginning, the labor market in the AI era is showing a very extreme structure:

On one side: ordinary white-collar workers whose efficiency is improved or even replaced by AI; on the other side, the prices for top AI talent are exploding

Within five years, AI will create more millionaires than the internet did in 20 years

Statistics even show that in the past six months, AI has already birthed 190,000 new millionaires, averaging 1,000 per day

A few days ago, there was a more ironic discussion in ByteDance's internal group

4⃣ The programmer community is the most contradictory group in the AI era

For the past few decades: countless programmers have open-sourced their best codes, which make up the GitHub open-source framework; AI has grown up consuming these corpora

As a result, once AI learned: the first to be optimized out were programmers

Without open-source, the barrier to programming might be as high as that of doctors and lawyers

5⃣ Career growth paths are disappearing

The typical growth path in an industry used to be:

Newcomer → Junior → Mid-level → Senior

But in the AI era: Newcomer + AI ≈ Mid-level Engineer

Companies no longer need to train newcomers

Opportunities for ordinary people to enter good industries are decreasing