2025-12-03
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A couple of months ago, Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motor Company,
took the stage at an event called the Aspen Ideas Festival.
He was there to talk about the future of the economy and the importance of skilled trades.
And as he sees it, something of a crisis.
Hiring an entry worker at a tech company has fallen 50% since 2019.
Is that really where we want all of our kids to go?
And then Jim Farley kind of just drops in this huge prediction.
Artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white collar workers in the U.S.
Half of all white collar workers?
That is quite a pronouncement from the CEO of a major company.
Jim Farley's not the only executive talking in these dramatic terms about how AI might upend the economy
as we know it.
Like, it could be a 21st century version of the Industrial Revolution.
Hello and welcome to Planet Money.
I'm Darian Woods.
And I'm Waylon Wong.
Normally, we're co-hosts over at Planet Money's Daily Podcast, The Indicator.
But today, we're here to bring you two stories about how AI is changing hiring.
Today on the show,