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Every major upheaval in business or technology sends ripples through the job market. When mergers and acquisitions and junk bonds were hot in the '80s and '90s, corporate finance was the sparkly new job to get after college. Consequently, droves of students brushed up on the subject with a class or two.

While most of the focus on the impact of AI on jobs, employment, and the future of labor is focused on the fear of many roles being automated away -- and for good reason -- there's far less focus on how AI will make the average worker more efficient and productive and potentially increase economic activity and growth. ZDNET explores both. Similarly, when the internet boom descended upon us, undergraduates and MBAs pored over case studies of Amazon and eBay with the hope of impressing prospective dot-com employers.



Flash forward to now. Considering the rapid increase in businesses embracing generative AI and large language models, this is indubitably the dawn of the . There is an emerging consensus that AI will be crucial in core business applications ranging from customer acquisitions and interactions to dynamic or real-time pricing.

surveyed by consultancy KPMG in 2024 said AI will have "an extremely high impact" on their organization in the next few years. "I think young people need to know that AI is going to touch absolutely everything, and you do need to have some degree of AI competence in almost any field," Julia Pollack, chief economist at ZipRecruiter, told ZDNET. "Ac.

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