Jodi Kantor on how AI impacts the job market [Extended Interview]
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Major has a wide-ranging interview with New York Times investigative reporter Jodi Kantor. Major and Jodi discuss how the rise of artificial intelligence is affecting recent college graduates who are facing difficulty in the job market. They also go down memory lane on the challenges they faced transitioning from college to the journalism industry.
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| 1:00.0 | Jody, as bluntly as you can describe it, tell my audience what the typical college graduate encounters |
| 1:08.0 | was looking for a job and artificial intelligence as an intermediary. |
| 1:13.6 | Thank you so much for asking because for people like you and I who are older, it is so hard to understand what they're facing. |
| 1:23.6 | I actually want to read you something that a student wrote because I want to do it in |
| 1:28.5 | her voice, not mine. This is from Alejandra Diaz Pizarro. She graduated from Columbia last spring, |
| 1:36.9 | so great student, great school. To describe the feeling of applying for a job right now, she said, |
| 1:44.5 | the main way I describe it is demoralizing. |
| 1:48.2 | It's spending days infinitely tweaking your resume so that whatever AI screening bot is doing |
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