AI Causing Drag on the US Job Market

AI expert Jennifer Bagley joins us to discuss how AI is starting to drag the US job market and what employers can do to use the technology.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jennifer Bagley is back with us AI Expert. Thank you
so much for taking the time to do this today,
starve with the technical.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Difficulties, Thanks for having me. So let's talk a.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Little bit about AI. As we mentioned, there's research from
Goldman Sachs that says we're losing jobs already, and a
lot of them. But what kind of jobs and who
are the people that maybe should be learning a little
bit more about this technology.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I mean, I think the jobs are stretched across almost
every industry and every role. I think middle management is
going to get hit. But the reality is anyone that
is currently in any position that is not learning how
to level up utilizing AI is at risk. It's not
necessarily that the jobs are being lost. It's that the

(00:46):
requirements and the skills of the people who hold those
jobs have to evolve, and they have to evolve faster
than anything in the history that we have ever seen.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
So those that are younger in the workplace. I have
a daughter, she's going to be twenty eight. She uses
AI to get meetings taken for her, she gets notes
when they're done, there's links, she makes reports. All of
that goes over my head. Is that a good place
for somebody like me to start.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
So, yes, that's basic conversational AI. And I think the
I mean just start AI was a platform. We launched
a community so that people could come and learn. Just
like that. If you look about look at the evolution
of AI, you're looking at conversational AI. Chat ABT is
kind of the baseline. It moves up to AI agents

(01:35):
and automations and augentic AI and MCPS, and then you
get into autonomous AI and there's a big gap even
between the kind of the basic version of AI to
people running entire autonomous networks of agents performing hundreds of
thousands of tasks by.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
The moment, Jennifer, do you think that colleges are preparing
kids for the workforce well enough?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
In this we're absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
So colleges need to do more. No, what about you
know the onus on bossers. Bosses are owners to try
to disseminate as much information they can about Hey, by
the way, we're moving forward and you need to pick
up these skills. Let's learn together.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I think that depends on the mindset of the owner.
I think, uh, there's not an industry that's doing great
or doing poorly. It's just about the business owner and
their logic. If you put your head in the sand
right now, you're toast in the future. But I have
seen even we have a lot of clients that are contractors,

(02:37):
and I've wound up buying stickers that say HVAC technician
by day, AI engineer by night, plumber by day, AI
engineer by night. So it depends these guys are building
full on automated applications right now. And then there are
some who are still saying that AI is not here,
or it is and it's not changing anything, and those
are the ones that I'm concerned about.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Interesting AI expert Jennifer Bagley, great information. I'm glad we
were able to talk. We will do it again soon.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Thank you so much,