Older Workers Are Training for AI Jobs. Gen Z Has Stopped Believing in Them.

Every prior technology transition rewarded younger workers — they adopted faster, carried less legacy habit, and entered the market as the new tools were becoming essential. The AI transition is running that logic in reverse. Entry-level workers, whose roles were built around the coordination and documentation tasks AI handles most fluently, are being displaced before they accumulate the domain expertise that insulates senior workers. The Dallas Fed's finding that while older worker employment has grown is not a data…