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In this episode of the Silicon Valley Girl Podcast, Marina Mogilko interviews Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford Economist, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and co-founder of Workhelix.
He's spent 30 years measuring what technology actually does to jobs, wrote "The Second Machine Age", and just published "Canaries in the Coal Mine" — the paper showing AI has already cut employment 16% for workers under 25 in the most exposed jobs.
In this episode he breaks down which jobs are in the bullseye and which are quietly growing, why "everyone is a coder now," the demand-curve reason more efficiency can actually mean MORE hiring, and the one skill (asking the right questions and managing a fleet of agents) that makes you valuable over the next 3-5 years.
*Timestamps:*
00:00 — Intro
00:49 — The 16% of entry-level jobs AI has already erased
02:03 — The exact jobs getting hit first (and the ones quietly growing)
04:27 — The plane-ticket rule that decides whether your job survives
07:32 — The company that "won" its AI hackathon with better lunch menus
09:20 — His money bet with a skeptic economist: "AI is underhyped"
10:18 — Ad
12:47 — Why your next job is running a fleet of AI agents
16:45 — Junior engineer, marketing manager, paralegal: what he tells them
17:09 — How to become senior when the junior jobs are gone
21:56 — Practical AI advice and Liberal Arts Value
28:08 — If AI is smarter than you, the 4 things you still get paid for
31:33 — Reid Hoffman's chess story and the one human superpower
33:58 — What to do if you don't have a startup
44:37 — How to Deeply Integrate AI into Your Life
50:46 — The best decade in history, or the worst: his answer
🎙 Erik Brynjolfsson social media:
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikbrynjolfsson/
Stanford Digital Economy Lab: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu
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