Meta AI exec Clara Shih launches nonprofit to teach Gen Z how to use AI agents, after watching algorithms outperform her top employees

Clara Shih, former head of business AI at Meta (and former Salesforce exec), founded the New Work Foundation with consumer brand Dear CC to train Gen Z for an AI-dominated job market. The catalyst: last fall, she watched Meta's AI agents match and exceed the performance of some of her top workers across multiple tasks.

The foundation released two tools: Field Report, which shows job seekers the number of open roles and automation risk in their target field (example: 31,500 open law roles in the U.S., but very high AI automation risk), and JobClaw, an AI agent that recommends jobs based on a five-question form rather than a résumé.

Gen Z faces a real squeeze—entry-level job openings have slowed, and a ZipRecruiter report shows many are considering alternatives like entrepreneurship or trade school instead of corporate jobs. Shih's message to recent graduates: learning to use AI agents well is now a prerequisite to getting hired and keeping a job, as a Writer survey found employees actively using AI are more likely to earn promotions or raises.