The Daily Populous Wednesday March 25th, 2026 morning edition
Authored by bbc.co.uk and submitted by Kagedeah

Earlier this week, in his annual letter to shareholders, external, Fink said the boom in artificial intelligence risked widening inequality, with only a small number of firms and investors seeing the benefits.

However, speaking to the BBC, he emphasised AI was going to create an "enormous amount of jobs".

He said that in his letter he had written about how many jobs would be created "related to electricians and welders and plumbers".

In contrast, there might not be as much demand for some office jobs as AI evolves and this could lead to a rethink about what roles are needed as "society is changing and evolving".

"We really put judgement on so many jobs and so many people who probably should not have gone into banking or media or law, [who] probably should have been a great worker with their hands, and we need to now rebalance that approach," he says.

In the US, he says, after World War Two "we built the foundation of education, and we said to all the young people, go to college, go to college, go to college. And we probably overdid it".

"We need to balance that out, and we need to be proud that... a career can be just as strong in these fields of plumbing and electricians."

EsliteMoby on March 25th, 2026 at 00:46 UTC »

Oh great! Computer components skyrocketing due to data center bubble, and consumers can't even afford the most basic PCs. Time to go out and touch some grass I guess. Oh great! Can't afford petrol now :/

RLewis8888 on March 25th, 2026 at 00:44 UTC »

"I have the biggest recessions. Everyone is saying that. I should probably get the Nobel Prize in Economics - or steal one."

hawkseye17 on March 25th, 2026 at 00:42 UTC »

Americans elected a man who bankrupted several casinos to not only bankrupt the US but bankrupt the world.