Learning AI is becoming more and more crucial for workers to get hired, as 42% of recent grads are still underemployed. Clara Shih, founder and CEO of the New Work Foundation and former Head of Business at Meta, says she wants AI to be profitable not just for businesses, but for everyone – including the millions of 25-year-olds currently unemployed. She joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.”
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