MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire and cost companies their future workforce

FORTUNE — “How else are people going to learn to do the job except via on-the-job learning and training apprenticeship?” McAfee told Harvard Business Review last month. “That’s how you learn to do difficult knowledge work is by helping somebody who’s good at that with the routine stuff. And when we put too much automation in that too quickly, we lose that apprenticeship ladder.”

The consequences extend beyond training gaps. By sidelining entry-level hiring, companies also risk losing a key competitive advantage: Gen Z’s fluency with AI. 

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