If your dad is “Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban, you’ll get some free tips on navigating the job market in the AI age.
“So, I got two kids in college, and what I tell them is if you were looking for a job at a big company, you’re not going to get it,” Cuban said.
Cuban was speaking at a joint interview at the All-In Summit with former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson when they were asked if AI could displace jobs.
The All-In Summit took place in Los Angeles from September 7 to September 9. A video recording of Cuban’s interview was uploaded to the “All-In Podcast” YouTube channel on Monday.
Cuban said it would be tough for a graduate to land a job at a big company now because those companies don’t need their help implementing AI into their workflows. Large companies can do that on their own in the short term, he added.
“The small to middle-sized companies need all the help they can get from AI natives. Because walking in and understanding AI and being able to implement for that company is a huge step forward to them. So I think that’s one way we will adjust,” he continued.
Cuban said the second thing he told his children was to make full use of the resources they have available to them, thanks to technology.
“There’s no better time to be in college or just graduating than right now, because you have more resources available to you in your phone than anybody in the history of everything,” Cuban said.
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“If you want to be an entrepreneur, if you want to do whatever it is, you have every expert that’s right there available to you,” he added.
Cuban did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Cuban and other business leaders have been pushing the message that young people should use their familiarity with AI tools to their advantage when looking for jobs.
Reid Hoffman, the cofounder of LinkedIn, said in a YouTube video published in June that young people need to embrace the fact that they are “generation AI” and are “AI native.”
“Bringing the fact that you have AI in your tool set is one of the things that makes you enormously attractive,” Hoffman said.
“Look, on this side, it’s transforming the workspace, entry-level work, employers’ confusion. But on this side, it’s making you able to show your unique capabilities. That, you know, in an environment with a bunch of older people, you might be able to help them out,” he added.
