Is AI Coming for Your Job? An Economist Gives It to Me Straight
From Becoming You with Suzy Welch by NYU Stern Professor Suzy Welch
September 1, 2026 · 40 min
About this episode
Suzy Welch discusses the impact of AI on jobs with economist Sania Khan, addressing fears and realities in the labor market.
This week on Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch hits pause on the values deep-dive series for something urgent: the state of work today. After Suzy casually dropped the phrase "job hugging" on a recent appearance at the Today Show — which is the trend of people gripping their jobs because they're terrified of what's coming — the reaction was, in Suzy's words, an internet meltdown. So she brought in Chief Labor Economist Sania Khan, formerly of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and then an AI company, to separate the panic from the data. They get into it: whether AI is coming for every job or about to create a wave of new ones, why "low hire, low fire" is quietly locking younger workers out of the labor market, and why a second-year analyst should be more nervous right now than almost anyone else in the building. Sania lays out the proactive work exercise she'd give any 22-year-old, or any 40-year-old, staring down a job that suddenly needs a rewrite. If you've got a job, want a job, or are quietly panicking about either, this one's for you. As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge . You are always growing and evolving and so are we…
People in this episode
Host: Suzy Welch
Guest: Sania Khan
Topics covered
- AI impact on jobs
- labor market trends
- job security
- career advice
- economic analysis
Keywords
- AI
- jobs
- labor market
- career advice
- job security
- economic trends
- job hugging
Sponsors
The Values Bridge
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Bureau of Labor Statistics, AI company
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