16 September 2026
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Entry-level jobs

Articles about Entry-level jobs from podcasts, articles and papers, with links to the original sources.

The weak point in Friedberg's AI jobs optimism: workers have to choose to move

On The Diary of a CEO, investor David Friedberg argued that AI grows companies rather than shrinking payrolls, using a painter commanding five robots as his image. Pressed on entry-level hiring, Klarna's staffing numbers and a Stanford payroll study, he named the assumption he thinks could be wrong: that displaced people will see an opportunity and take it.

10 min read

Skip the PhD, the Moonshots panel says — then it counts its own degrees

After losing an MIT recruit to a Princeton doctoral program, the Moonshots panel argued that the next two or three years are the last window in which humans steering fleets of AI agents will be unusually valuable — and that a PhD spends that window badly. Then the objection arrived from their own side of the table: everyone there holds the degrees they are telling young people to skip.

6 min read

If nobody can stop AI, what is left worth doing?

On The Diary of a CEO, Konstantin Kisin tells Steven Bartlett that nobody — not him, not the host, not Trump — can stop AI, and that what remains is living well with family and community. Bartlett refuses to give up on public pressure and expects AI on the ballot in 2028; Kisin expects voters to blame whoever is in office instead.

6 min read