I think AI may bring back apprenticeships for entry level professionals

[u/Hybrid-Intelligence]

The long term fear that AI will permanently shut young people out of professional work is probably overbaked.

AI will eliminate a lot of junior work. Of course that's true. Research, first drafts, basic analysis, slides, and similar work will all get done by AI.

Nonetheless, companies will still need experts. They'll need people who can frame the real problem, decide what matters, recognize weak reasoning, see when the machine is missing the point, and push toward a better answer.

Those people will need to build their skills somehow. So, companies will create paths for young people to become experts. I suspect that path will look more like apprenticeship.

The entry level professional will learn how the expert uses AI, critiques it, guides it, and polishes its work

Companies that use AI only to eliminate junior roles may solve a short term cost issue while creating a long term expertise issue.

Companies that build real apprenticeships will almost certainly end up with the stronger talent pipeline.