Dan Shapero on AI will create a permanent underclass

Dan Shapero

Chief Operating Officer at LinkedIn

This mix of uneven hiring and AI-driven job creation marks the emergence of the new-collar era, a workforce that blends knowledge work, advanced technical skills and distinctly human strengths.

AI Verified (Jan 15, 2026)

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AI has already added 1.3 million new jobs, according to LinkedIn data

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AI will create a permanent underclass

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AI Verified The quote argues AI-driven job creation and a 'new-collar era', which directly bears on the permanent-underclass statement. gpt-5 · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The quote says AI is adding jobs and describes a new-collar era, so 'against' matches the permanent-underclass statement. gpt-5 · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The WEF article at lines 24-25 contains the same 'new-collar era' / AI-driven job creation wording and attribution to Dan Shapero. gpt-5 · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

While there is evidence that AI is impacting jobs in small pockets, it’s also creating demand at scale – including more than 600,000 new, AI-enabled data centre jobs and 1.3 million new roles like AI Engineers, Forward-Deployed Engineers and Data Ann...

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