Who's training your future leaders if AI takes the entry-level jobs?

Who's training your future leaders if AI takes the entry-level jobs?

Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder) told Ezra Klein this week: half of all entry-level white-collar jobs could be gone in two years. Not hype. Math.

Here's the uncomfortable part:

AI isn't better than your best people yet. But it's already better than your average new grad. And most of any workforce is average by definition.

Anthropic is seeing this internally. Senior people with taste and judgment? More valuable than ever. Junior roles that handle routine work? Harder to justify.

But nobody's talking about the cliff this creates:

We're automating the jobs that teach people how to do jobs.

No entry-level work means no pipeline. No pipeline means no senior talent in ten years.

For leaders: Be intentional. Some work trains your future people. Don't hand that to a bot just because you can.

For people in those roles: The window to level up is closing faster than you think.

The genie's out. The question is whether we're building a ladder, or an elevator with no ground floor.