Clara Shih

Founder, New Work Foundation and Host, dear CC. Conditional AI optimist. Advisor/founder, Meta Business AI. Founder, Hearsay. ex-CEO Salesforce AI

[Clara Shih @clarashih]

I've spent 20 years building AI at Meta, Salesforce, and startups.

Last fall my team's AI agents started really working. I knew everything had changed.

Then my nieces, nephews, cousins started asking me how to get hired.

I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since. So I decided to leave and build something.

Today at #TIME100 Summit, we’re launching #NewWorkFoundation– free, open source AI tools for Gen Z navigating the worst entry-level job market in 37 years.
→ @dearCChq: what AI is doing to your profession
→ Field Report: best jobs for your major
→ JobClaw: match your strengths to roles + AI skills you need

Every job is becoming an AI job. Direct it, or be directed by it.

The future isn't automatic. I want to help #GenZ write theirs.

Grateful to have @AndrewYang joining as a Founding Advisor– someone who's been sounding the alarm on this longer than almost anyone.
https://t.co/7oEJKz8f6i

@TIME

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Narration: the data efficiency black hole.

00:00:00 – What is really driving AI progress?
00:03:11 – Comparing human vs AI sample efficiency
00:08:46 – Does sample efficiency matter?

Also on pod and YouTube feed.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Some (early) evidence that managers have the highest success rate in using Claude Code for coding.

I have been arguing that management is an AI superpower, as clearly specifying what you want, how to do it & what good looks like is key to using agents. https://t.co/ofbCp3f1QB

[Clara Shih @clarashih]

"Think about what happened in the first phase of globalization where entire industrial economies were hollowed out by outsourcing. The GDP numbers looked fine on the surface, but the displacement was real and the consequences are still being felt.

Let us not bring that dynamic into the AI era, with a small number of AI systems capturing all the economic returns, while entire industries find their knowledge commoditized right out from underneath them."

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Underemployment of recent college grads sits at 42%. https://t.co/nml2lyvF6T

[Semafor @semafor]

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for worker protection against AI-driven job losses and a new US regulatory body to oversee frontier AI research.

https://t.co/r5LTXJpdKM

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

I'm a technology optimist. I’ve spent four decades studying disruptive innovation, from the microprocessor, the internet, mobile phones to OpenAI. I'm certain AI will do 80% of the economically valuable work humans do today, for 80% of all jobs, faster than most believe. The question isn't whether mass underemployment arrives, but whether we have a policy framework ready. Right now we don't.

[Clara Shih @clarashih]

@vshih2 Foreign interference

[Clara Shih @clarashih]

@vshih2 Party primaries

[dj patil @dpatil]

In just 2 weeks 1,000+ students & 250+ mentors have signed up for https://t.co/vpNTwborzx

😮 This just confirms what we knew was happening. Too many talented students are
-Waiting for an internship.
-Waiting for a recruiter.
-Waiting for someone to tell them what project to work on.

Hack Your Summer is built around a different idea: DON'T WAIT! BUILD!

🚨 THE GOAL: build something you can show future employers, future collaborators, graduate programs, mentors, investors, or anyone else who asks: "What have you built?"

What kind of project?
• Products, software, and AI tools
• Data science and analytics
• Journalism and media
• Design and creative work
• Community initiatives
• Hardware and robotics
• Or something entirely unexpected

🚨 MENTORS: this is an opportunity to help the next generation of builders, share what you've learned, and get inspired by what students are creating today.

🚨 HELP!!!!! We're also looking for sponsors and partners who can contribute software, tools, datasets, APIs, challenges, credits, and real-world problems for students to tackle.

‼️ Important dates:
• Cohort 1 registration closes June 10
• Cohort 1 starts June 15

• Cohort 2 registration closes July 8
• Cohort 2 starts July 13

If you're a student, apply.
If you're a mentor, join us.
If you're a company that wants to help, we'd love to talk.

Let's build!!!

https://t.co/U0IaLsna5X

[Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn]

Today, the Stanford @DigEconLab launches the AI Economic Indicators, a new platform for tracking how AI is reshaping work, productivity, adoption, and the economy.

1/6

[Victor Shih @vshih2]

Who Will Actually Thrive in the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force, including thoughtful comments from my sister @clarashih https://t.co/Tz2o54DNzM via @NYTimes

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

Dear followers,
Please see this discussion on AI and future work between myself, @deanwball @emollick and @clarashih
Somehow, I was again the least optimistic person in the debate.
In the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force, Who Will Actually Thrive? — NYT https://t.co/FTRbPMOtvP

[Clara Shih @clarashih]

I debated the future of AI + work with @DAcemogluMIT, @emollick, and @deanwball hosted by @nytimes.

If you’re a jobseeker confronting today's uncertain AI landscape, how should you prepare for the future of work? Build relationship skills, AI literacy, and domain expertise deep enough to review and critique AI.

There are interventions that we still can try– that we should try– because we’re going to have to test many things before we know what will work. There’s still time, but the window is closing.

Article: https://t.co/hHx6HKh1sH

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The New York Times published a roundtable discussion between @DAcemogluMIT, @deanwball, @clarashih & myself about the future of AI & who wins at work. I think it is a really nice overview of the core debates on the topic, and has some fun examples. https://t.co/aizA83fpti

[Clara Shih @clarashih]

I debated the future of AI + work with @DAcemogluMIT, @emollick, and @deanwball hosted by @nytimes.

If you’re a jobseeker confronting today's uncertain AI landscape, how should you prepare for the future of work? Build relationship skills, AI literacy, and domain expertise deep enough to review and critique AI.

There are interventions that we still can try– that we should try– because we’re going to have to test many things before we know what will work. There’s still time, but the window is closing.

Article: https://t.co/hHx6HKh1sH

[Clara Shih @clarashih]

"Inside the classroom, the uneven deployment of ChatGPT has left students scrambling to make sense of what the A.I. Initiative portends for their own educations and job prospects. Some have chosen to link their fate to the technology, dedicating themselves to learning prompt engineering, while others are staging a revolt against it. A vast majority, however, are just trying to find their place in the new economy." @nytimes

[Victor Shih @vshih2]

A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. / yeah a simultaneous rollout without a lot of sandboxing and faculty input is not well advised https://t.co/xSRuV6Ub0R via @NYTimes /

[Clara Shih @clarashih]

The act of writing is an act of thinking, making meaning, and cognitive and creative flourishing.

The biggest risk of delegating work to AI is at the learning stage. Struggle is how skills get encoded-- whether searching for the right word or phrase, or wrestling with a complex problem. AI producing the result faster robs beginners of the opportunity to become experts.

Beneath the surface, results are also often not as good for novice writers. An analysis of 370,000 college student essays found that human-written essays contain 8X more novel ideas than those generated by A.I. Though AI works often contain more flowery language, story lines are more homogeneous and lack distinctive ideas.
https://t.co/jYeXCzkEPy

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

Every AI pitch promises the same thing:

Do more in less time. Finally get to the important stuff. Work less.

New research from Berkeley followed real workers for 8 months.

That's not what happened. 👇

[Brian Sozzi @BrianSozzi]

Morgan Stanley on AI and jobs:

"Our surveys indicate that AI adoption is reshaping workforces across industries, with broadly consistent dynamics observed in both waves. Survey respondents in the five new sectors ('Wave 2') said that in the past year, AI adoption had led to 12% of jobs to be eliminated and a further 15% to not be backfilled, partially offset by 22% new hires."