The entry rung is thinning: what the 2025 evidence says about AI and careers
Exposure by task and career stage, the apprenticeship problem, and what a person does about it
Work, Careers & the Frontier Firm
What does the 2025 evidence say about AI and work — and how should a person and an organisation respond?
Where the premium is moving in practice: the thinning entry rung, teams that mix people and agents, the document-heavy professions, and the energy, chips and sovereignty that decide where AI can actually land.
Lessons in this module
The frontier firm: agents as digital labour, humans as agent bosses
Org design for human + agent teams: ratios, decision rights, gates and the unit economics
AI in finance, legal and professional services: the document is the workflow
Contract review, audit sampling, research memos and the verification-and-audit-trail discipline they all share
Energy, chips and sovereignty: the physical economics that will decide where AI lands
Power, water, compute access, data residency and the EU's regulatory identity — as inputs to strategy