Gen Z Has a Question for Employers — How Are You Using AI? | EP45

AI is reshaping entry-level work fast — and the generation walking into your workforce has already formed opinions about how you're handling it. Four college interns share what they actually think about AI, career development, and the skills that matter most when the task layer disappears. In this conversation, you'll hear why a company that doesn't use AI is a red flag to this generation, how AI freed up intern time for human connection rather than replacing it, and what one intern learned spending a summer as a formal test subject for AI-augmented entry-level work. If you're making decisions about headcount, hiring, or how to build AI confidence across your workforce, this one is worth your time. Check out Insight AI Flight Academy — the same gamified AI enablement program these interns experienced firsthand — because you'll see exactly how to build real AI adoption across your workforce: insight.com/en_US/what-we-do/expertise/ai-flight-academy.html Want to go deeper on building an AI-ready team? "The AI Skills Playbook" walks through a five-step strategy for integrating AI into daily workflows: insight.com/en_US/content-and-resources/gated/the-ai-skills-playbook-ac1402.html And if adoption is stalling in your organization, "AI Starts With Us" makes the case that AI success is a leadership challenge, not a technology one: insight.com/en_US/content-and-resources/gated/ai-starts-with-us-drive-meaningful-ai-adoption-ac1393.html Subscribe to Insight On for more conversations with the people shaping how technology gets used at work. #AI #FutureOfWork #GenerativeAI #AIadoption #InsightOn Chapters 02:07 — How AI shaped their college experience 04:09 — Would you work for a company that doesn't use AI? 07:19 — AI skills coming into the internship 09:42 — Tasks AI made faster — real examples 11:12 — The validation problem — catching AI errors 12:44 — Did you learn more from AI or from people? 16:38 — Are you afraid AI will take your job? 21:48 — Advice for younger siblings entering the workforce 28:32 — What employers should do to support AI adoption 31:11 — Make the business case — why hire humans over AI?