AI Is Letting Companies Cut Entry-Level Jobs. Here’s Why That Is a ‘Critical Strategic Mistake,’ According to an MIT Economist.

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June 10, 2026

Frank Nagle spends his time watching how people actually work.

As an MIT economist and the advising chief economist for the Linux Foundation, Nagle studies how AI is rewiring the modern workplace. He got his start in cybersecurity, then shifted his research to the intersection of technology and business decisions.

“My research recently has been thinking about how AI not only improves productivity, but also how it changes the way that people work and the way that they spend their time,” Nagle tells Entrepreneur in a new interview.

He does not deny that AI is going to disrupt the workforce: “100% there’s going to be changes and job loss,” he says. He predicts that workers will “still have jobs that are different from those they have today” 15 to 20 years from now.

He also thinks that companies that cut junior staff in the name of AI are making a “critical strategic mistake.”

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Here’s what else we’re reading this week:

• How one hedge fund is replacing human analysts with AI bots (Bloomberg)
• Salesforce lays off employees in a new round of cuts (Business Insider)
• SpaceX employee group creates low-fee wealth management option with Choreo for post-IPO (CNBC)

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