LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says Gen Z graduates are ‘enormously attractive’ to … – Yahoo

The rise of AI has sparked fears that it will cause jobs to disappear. But Reid Hoffman says young people should embrace AI in their job hunt. The LinkedIn cofounder said AI knowledge would make them “enormously attractive” to employers. Reid Hoffman, the venture capitalist who cofounded LinkedIn, says young people should use their familiarity with AI as a selling point when seeking work. “You are generation AI. You are AI native. So bringing the fact that you have AI in your tool set is one of the things that makes you enormously attractive,” Hoffman said in a video he published on his YouTube channel on Thursday. Hoffman was addressing questions sent in by college students on how they should best navigate the job hunt. Several students had asked Hoffman about AI’s impact on their employment prospects. Hoffman said in his video that AI’s impact on jobs was a “legitimate worry,” but he added that students could try to use it to their advantage. “Look, on this side, it’s transforming the workspace, entry-level work, employers’ confusion,” he said. “But on this side, it’s making you able to show your unique capabilities. That, you know, in an environment with a bunch
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