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Comment by Larry Fink
Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
[AI] is going to create many jobs and we're not prepared as a society to fulfill those jobs. And to me, this is a crisis. [...] AI is going to create a lot of skilled jobs needs and the biggest issue confronting our country today and other countries is the speed at which this change is occurring.AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified
Fortune’s March 18, 2026 article at the supplied URL attributes the remarks to Larry Fink and contains the first sentence, the “This is a crisis” line, and the unusual wording “skilled jobs needs,” in the same sequence; the [...] is faithful, standing in for intervening text about BlackRock’s $100 million skilled-trades initiative. Semafor’s March 12, 2026 report from the same summit independently confirms the first part and the crisis remark. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-class-of-2026-gen-z-college-graduate-warning-ai-job-market-crisis-unprepared-workforce-skilled-trade-growth//))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
Quote attributed to Larry Fink (BlackRock CEO) about AI creating many jobs but society being unprepared. Web search confirms this from Fortune (March 18, 2026) at the provided URL. Multiple sources (Yahoo Finance, AOL, Business Chief) corroborate the exact phrases. Vote "for" is correctly aligned -- while Fink warns of a preparedness crisis, his core position is that AI "is going to create many jobs" and "a lot of skilled jobs needs." He backed this with a $100M investment in skilled-trade programs. Year 2026 is current. Quote is relevant to statement 389.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 1mo ago
AI Unverifiable
Source URL (Fortune) returned HTTP 403, blocking direct fetch. Web search confirms BlackRock CEO Larry Fink stated at the 2026 Infrastructure Summit that AI "is going to create many jobs and we're not prepared as a society to fulfill those jobs." He calls this "a crisis" and committed $100M to skilled-trade programs. Vote direction (for) is correct since Fink argues AI will create many jobs (the crisis is about preparedness, not job destruction). Year (2026) and author attribution are correct.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 1mo ago
replying to Larry Fink