Clara Shih, formerly head of business AI at Meta and a prior Salesforce AI executive, launched the New Work Foundation on April 26, 2026. The nonprofit, operating under the consumer brand Dear CC, builds free AI tools designed to help Gen Z workers adapt to a labor market increasingly shaped by autonomous agents. Fortune reported that Shih was motivated by watching Meta’s AI agents match and surpass some of her top employees across multiple tasks last fall.
“In that moment I knew that nothing would ever be the same,” Shih told Fortune. “You feel radicalized in that moment when you see it working.”
Two AI Tools for Job Seekers
The foundation launched with two products. Field Report is a career analysis tool that shows job seekers the current state of their preferred career path, including open roles, competition level, and AI automation risk by profession. A law career query, for example, returns 31,500 open U.S. roles with low competition but very high automation risk, according to Fortune.
The second product, JobClaw, is an AI agent that matches job seekers to roles based on a five-question intake form about strengths and interests. No resume required. The approach targets the exact population struggling most: recent graduates without extensive work histories competing in a market where entry-level positions are disappearing.
The Labor Market Context
Shih described the current moment as “the biggest reorganization of human labor ever” at the TIME100 Summit on April 23. “It’s faster than the Industrial Revolution. It’s faster than the internet. And there’s no equivalent to the G.I. Bill or the union yet defined.”
The data supports the urgency. A ZipRecruiter report cited by Fortune found that Gen Z graduates are increasingly turning to entrepreneurship, gig work, and trade school as entry-level corporate positions shrink. Just one in four graduates is on their dream career path. A Gallup poll found 31% of Gen Z feel angry about AI, with sentiment growing significantly more negative compared to a year ago, per both Fortune and TIME.
Where Institutional Response Stands
The New Work Foundation is notable less for its products (career matching tools exist) and more for who is building it. Shih spent two decades in AI and held senior roles at two of the companies most aggressively deploying autonomous agents. She is currently a senior advisor at Meta. Her departure from an operating role to launch a nonprofit signals that some industry insiders view the displacement problem as urgent enough to require dedicated institutional responses rather than corporate reskilling programs.
At the TIME100 Summit, Shih noted the bifurcation in Gen Z employment: those with AI skills find work easily, while those without them face a much tougher market. “If you want to find a job and if you want to keep your job, you need to learn how to get really good at using AI agents,” she told Fortune.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said the technology will disrupt half of the white-collar workforce. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has argued it will work alongside human workers and enable more hiring. Shih’s bet is that the outcome depends on whether workers have the tools and training to participate. “The next 12 months are critical,” she said at the TIME100 Summit.