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- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
On Thursday, Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s head of applications (and former CEO of Instacart), announced the plan for workers to advertise themselves to the company’s customers for new jobs. She said that while AI is going to shake up the employment market, who better to solve that problem than the people doing the shaking?
“AI will be disruptive. Jobs will look different, companies will have to adapt, and all of us – from shift workers to CEOs – will have to learn how to work in new ways,” she said in a blog post.
“At OpenAI, we can’t eliminate that disruption. But what we can do is help more people become fluent in AI and connect them with companies that need their skills, to give people more economic opportunities.”
Simo’s plan is that workers should take courses in tech literacy at its OpenAI Academy and then advertise themselves on a forthcoming jobs platform. She said the company has already signed up some big names to the scheme, although maybe the choice of Walmart as an early adopter might not encourage IT admins in their future career paths.
This run is cooked, burn everything down and start from the beginning.