The Real Threat Isn’t Silicon Valley—It’s the Eccles Building You’ve heard it a hundred times already: AI is here to take your job. From coders to content writers to call center workers, the narrative is that automation and artificial intelligence are steamrolling entry-level positions. But new economic research suggests that this storyline is, at best, a misdirection—and at worst, deliberate cover for something far more insidious. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment for workers aged 20–24 fell by more than 1.2 million jobs between mid-2022 and late-2023, a period that coincides with aggressive interest-rate hikes—not widespread AI deployment. In fact, most large language models were not commercially integrated into hiring or operations at scale during this window,…
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