Sunak Warns AI Job Loss, Youth Optimism Plummets

0:00On April 23rd, Rishi Sunak is sending the alarm on artificial intelligence wiping out jobs left and right. Company leaders are leaning on AI to expand their businesses without hiring more people, he says. In a perfect setup, he ditched national insurance contributions for workers and bosses since those costs pile on about 25% extra. Beyond base pay. And get this, he predicts nearly every job out there will transform because of AI. Sunak's not just talking theory, he jumped into a part-time senior advisor gig at Microsoft last October, sharing big picture views on economics. Global shifts and tech changes, he's also linked up with Anthropic, the San Francisco crew behind the Claude AI models. A fresh UK youth poll hit hard truths from 2000 folks aged 16 to 29. Just 36% now, think their lives will top their parents, a steep drop from 63% last year, that optimism is fading fast among the young crowd.

1:01They flagged inflation and living costs as top worries, right alongside housing prices, health care access, immigration and shaky job security. Eddie Barnes, from the John Smith Center, called it a total shift. Young people are ditching the old belief that each generation levels up. As AI shakes up work in youth five sour, these trends point to big changes ahead for how we hustle and build futures.