Human Relationships and the Rise of AI

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Human Relationships and the Rise of AI

If you don’t read Scott Galloway, you should.

The March 31 Prof G Markets newsletter lead article “AI vs. Gen Z: The Hiring War Has Begun” talks about the 8% plus unemployment rate among Gen Z recent college grads ages 20-25.

There are multiple reasons behind this, including the “AI” ization of entry level roles, Millennial manager antipathy to hiring young people, and a wonky economy filled with uncertainty.

Out of this, Galloway postulates on the most important piece of advice he can give his college age children and their friends. It is: be social and make a lot of friends. I quote:

“But more than anything, I tell students to be social. The easiest way to improve your odds of getting a job is having a lot of friends. When Google posts a job, it probably gets 200 resumes in minutes. Most of the time, the person who lands the job is someone who has a friend at the firm. The way you change the trajectory of your professional career is relationships. So while you’re in college, focus on establishing deep, meaningful relationships.”

How fitting, ironic, paradoxical, and ultimately logical. The killer human app in the age of AI is the ability to build relationships.

And we, their parents, know this: this applies to us too.