OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI is ready for entry-level jobs—but unbothered Gen Z have made it their new work friend

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI is ready for entry-level jobs—but unbothered Gen Z have made it their new work friend

Billionaire OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reveals that AI can already perform tasks of junior-level employees—and the ability for it to work days at a time is just around the corner. With fellow tech leaders like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang saying those who fail to embrace the technology will be replaced, some Gen Zers are catching on.

If you’re in desperate need of an intern, there’s good news: there may soon be an abundance of them. But they might not be able to fetch you a coffee.

OpenAI CEO

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admitted this week that

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—AI-powered systems that can complete job-related tasks with other software tools—can now effectively do the same work as entry-level employees.

“Today (AI) is like an intern that can work for a couple of hours but at some point it’ll be like an experienced software engineer that can work for a couple of days,” Altman

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on a panel with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy.

In the coming months, AI agents will only get exponentially better, Altman said—to the point where their skills are just as good as an experienced software engineer. They’re anticipated to operate continuously for days on end, without pause.

“I would bet next year that in some limited cases, at least in some small ways, we start to see agents that can help us discover new knowledge, or can figure out solutions to business problems that are very non-trivial,” the 40-year-old AI CEO added. Fortune reached out to Altman for comment.

While this may seem like

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for some workers, the future of human employees’ success may depend on following the advice of tech CEOs like Nvidia’s

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. He predicted those who fail to embrace AI might be the next employee to get the pink slip.

“You’re not going to lose your job to an AI, but you’re going to lose your job to someone who uses AI,” he

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at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference last month.

Gen Z may be listening to the AI warning signs

Generative AI may be eclipsing the skills of entry-level workers—like

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or

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. Some

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, and begun

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than other age groups. About 51% of Gen Z now view generative AI just like a co-worker or as a friend, according to a

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from Resume.org. That’s compared to just over 40% of millennials and 35% of Gen

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or baby boomers who feel the same way.

Altman has gone even further to say that many young people (including millennials) are turning to AI for far more than just internet sleuthing:

“(It’s a) gross oversimplification, but like older people use ChatGPT as a

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replacement. Maybe people in their 20s and 30s use it as like a life advisor, and then, like people in college use it as an operating system,”

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at Sequoia Capital’s AI Ascent event earlier this month.

“And there’s this other thing where (young people) don’t really make life decisions without asking ChatGPT what they should do,” he added.

The alarm bells are still being rung by some tech leaders

Not all tech leaders have been as

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, and have instead used their public appearances to highlight fears of an AI-driven job market reckoning.

According to Anthropic CEO

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, AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. Unemployment could skyrocket to 10% to 20%, he told

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. To put that into context, it’s currently at around 4%.

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that the next decade will be “pretty terrible” for humans as desk jobs are automated, they told tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel

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.

This comes as the

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—Anthropic’s generative AI—can now reportedly code autonomously for nearly seven hours.

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