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AI Apocalypse Is Coming. 7 Skills You Need Right Now
You’re gonna need these now more than ever.
Donald King was 26. He built ai agents at PwC. And worked 60–80-hour weeks to put ai to work for fortune 500 clients. King got fired just two hours after winning his company’s hackathon competition. The same tools he created could do his job. This was back in October 2024. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, have probably lost their jobs to ai agents since then. Is it all bad? Maybe not. However you think about the ai anxiety going round, you can’t and shouldn’t ignore it. Tech giants and investors are pouring billions into it. And it won’t be for nothing. They need ai to be everywhere. And so far it’s working. Banks are axing thousands of jobs in the UK right now. Is it an apocalypse? It depends on how old you are and what you do all day for work. Ouch. It’s true, though. A stanford study of millions of payroll records found that working people between the ages of 22 to 25 are in the most ai-exposed jobs.
So it’s not a cliff for all.
And not evenly distributed. But no one knows how long it stays like that. Things are changing so fast. But you can prepare. And take advantage. King used his exposure and experience to build his own startup marketing company. Don’t wait to be ambushed and be forced out unprepared. As jobs are…
