AI anxiety is reshaping career ambitions as students and workers pivot away from tech

A computer science student dropped his planned major to apply to nursing school, citing fears that AI will overtake entry-level coding jobs by the time he graduates. The World Economic Forum projects AI will displace 92M jobs while creating 170M new ones by 2030. The Guardian investigation found workers at all career stages rethinking their trajectories. Some are eschewing AI entirely while others are embracing it, creating a bifurcated labor market shaped more by anxiety than by AI's actual current capabilities.

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