Stanford's Top AI Economist: The Next 10 Years Will Be the Best AND the Worst in History

📌 AI tools are everywhere — but Genspark is the one I turned into a system that actually runs my business. Just hit $250M ARR in 12 months. New users can trial Pro-tier Deep Research free with the Get Started bonus. Come build yours ↓ https://www.genspark.ai/?utm_source=y... ‪@GensparkProduct‬ In this episode of the Silicon Valley Girl Podcast, Marina Mogilko interviews Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford Economist, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and co-founder of Workhelix. He's spent 30 years measuring what technology actually does to jobs, wrote "The Second Machine Age", and just published "Canaries in the Coal Mine" — the paper showing AI has already cut employment 16% for workers under 25 in the most exposed jobs. In this episode he breaks down which jobs are in the bullseye and which are quietly growing, why "everyone is a coder now," the demand-curve reason more efficiency can actually mean MORE hiring, and the one skill (asking the right questions and managing a fleet of agents) that makes you valuable over the next 3-5 years. Timestamps: 00:00 — Intro 00:49 — The 16% of entry-level jobs AI has already erased 02:03 — The exact jobs getting hit first (and the ones quietly growing) 04:27 — The plane-ticket rule that decides whether your job survives 07:32 — The company that "won" its AI hackathon with better lunch menus 09:20 — His money bet with a skeptic economist: "AI is underhyped" 10:18 — Ad 12:47 — Why your next job is running a fleet of AI agents 16:45 — Junior engineer, marketing manager, paralegal: what he tells them 17:09 — How to become senior when the junior jobs are gone 21:56 — Practical AI advice and Liberal Arts Value 28:08 — If AI is smarter than you, the 4 things you still get paid for 31:33 — Reid Hoffman's chess story and the one human superpower 33:58 — What to do if you don't have a startup 44:37 — How to Deeply Integrate AI into Your Life 50:46 — The best decade in history, or the worst: his answer 🎙 Erik Brynjolfsson social media: X: https://x.com/erikbryn Linkedin:   / erikbrynjolfsson   Stanford Digital Economy Lab: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu Links: 📩 Follow my Newsletter (Future Proof): https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com... 🔗 Instagram:   / siliconvalleygirl   ⁠⁠⁠𝕏 : ⁠⁠https://x.com/siliconvalleymm⁠ 📌 My Companies & Products: https://Marinamogilko.co #Genspark #WorkWithGenspark #siliconvalleygirl