Day: August 5, 2025

• Margaret Qualley says she uses two phones to avoid being online all day.
• The actor uses one phone for essentials — Uber, texting, and Maps — and has another phone for social media.
• “I have another phone at home that doesn’t have cellphone service — it just has WiFi, and I can look at Instagram,” she said.

Margaret Qualley, 30, has a simple trick for staying present.

In an interview with Cosmopolitan published on Monday, the actor spoke about keeping two phones and how it helps her stay unplugged.

“Cell phones are like cigarettes. I’m a big fan of airplane mode. Because opening your phone is also like going to work, you know? I don’t have any apps on my phone except Uber, texting, and Maps,” Qualley told Cosmopolitan.

That way, she feels less inclined to scroll while going about her day —like when in line at the grocery store — and more likely to stay present, she said.

“I’m just there, listening to people’s conversations. And I feel more immersed in my life,” Qualley added.

“The Substance” star keeps a second phone at home solely for checking social media.

“I have another phone at home that doesn’t have cellphone service — it just has WiFi, and I can look at Instagram. We are all definitely too plugged in,” she said.

In a May 2023 interview with The Standard, Qualley said she isn’t a big fan of social media. “I don’t have Instagram. I’m not really in that game. It’s kind of a lose-lose situation,” she said.

The actor has since created an Instagram profile.

A representative for Qualley did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.

Qualley is far from the only celebrity rethinking screen time and social media.

Actor Mia Threapleton, 24, said in May that her mother, Kate Winslet, made her write a pros and cons list for joining Instagram when she was 14.

“The cons completely outweighed the pros for me. That was quite a clarifying moment. Since then, the more time I spend in this world, the more I’m really happy that I don’t have it,” Threapleton said.

Some celebrities have chosen to forgo smartphones and other digital devices entirely.

In 2023, Christopher Nolan said that he finds modern technology distracting, so he doesn’t carry a smartphone.

“If I’m generating my material and writing my own scripts, being on a smartphone all day wouldn’t be very useful for me,” Nolan, 55, said.

Michael Cera, who acted in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” said in 2023 that he wasn’t added to the group chat for the Barbie and Ken actors because he didn’t use a smartphone.

“I don’t have an iPhone myself. … I have a flip phone,” Cera said.

• AI is reshaping the US job market, impacting young tech workers significantly.
• The tech sector’s employment share peaked in November 2022, then declined post-ChatGPT.
• Goldman Sachs predicts AI will displace 6-7% of all US workers.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the US job market — and young tech workers are feeling the brunt of it.

“It is true that AI is starting to show up more clearly in the data,” wrote Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs’ chief economist, in a Monday note.

Goldman’s analysis shows that the tech sector’s share of the US employment market peaked in November 2022 — when ChatGPT was launched — and has since fallen below its long-term trend.

The impact has been especially sharp for young tech workers. The unemployment rate for 20- to 30-year-olds in tech has risen by nearly 3 percentage points since early 2024, over four times the increase in the overall jobless rate.

That spike is yet another sign that generative AI is starting to displace white-collar jobs, especially among early-career workers.

“While this is still a small share of the overall US labor market, we estimate that generative AI will eventually displace 6-7% of all US workers,” Hatzius wrote.

Goldman expects that shift to happen over the next decade. The firm forecasts that the peak unemployment impact will be limited to a “manageable” 0.5 percentage point, as other industries absorb many displaced workers.

The report comes amid growing concerns about US labor market weakness.

The US economy added just 73,000 jobs in July, far short of the 106,000 expected by economists, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. Job growth for May and June was also revised sharply lower.

“Friday’s jobs numbers reinforced our view that US growth is near stall speed — a pace below which the labor market weakens in a self-reinforcing fashion,” wrote Hatzius.

Despite AI’s impact, Hatzius pointed to a bigger near-term problem: a slowdown in US output growth, which he attributes in part to higher tariffs.

Goldman estimates that real GDP grew at a 1.2% annualized rate in the first half of the year. Analysts wrote that they expect a “similarly sluggish pace” in the second half.

“While the easing in financial conditions and the pickup in business confidence should support growth, real disposable income and consumer spending are likely to grow very slowly, not just because of the weakness in job growth but also because most of the pass-through from tariffs to consumer prices is still ahead of us,” Hatzius wrote.

Tech leaders have warned of an AI-induced jobs cliff. In May, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that AI may eliminate 50% of entry-level, white-collar jobs in the next five years.