{"id":28699,"date":"2025-05-30T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28699"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:27:10","slug":"for-some-recent-graduates-the-a-i-job-apocalypse-may-already-be-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28699","title":{"rendered":"For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This month, millions of young people will graduate from college and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favor of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

That is the troubling conclusion of my conversations over the past several months with economists, corporate executives and young job-seekers, many of whom pointed to an emerging crisis for entry-level workers<\/a> that appears to be fueled, at least in part, by rapid advances in A.I. capabilities.<\/p>\n

You can see hints of this in the economic data. Unemployment for recent college graduates has jumped to an unusually high 5.8 percent in recent months, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently warned<\/a> that the employment situation for these workers had \u201cdeteriorated noticeably.\u201d Oxford Economics, a research firm that studies labor markets, found that unemployment for recent graduates was heavily concentrated in technical fields like finance and computer science, where A.I. has made faster gains.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are signs that entry-level positions are being displaced by artificial intelligence at higher rates,\u201d the firm wrote in a recent report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But I\u2019m convinced that what\u2019s showing up in the economic data is only the tip of the iceberg. In interview after interview, I\u2019m hearing that firms are making rapid progress toward automating entry-level work, and that A.I. companies are racing to build \u201cvirtual workers\u201d that can replace junior employees at a fraction of the cost. Corporate attitudes toward automation are changing, too \u2014 some firms have encouraged managers<\/a> to become \u201cA.I.-first,\u201d testing whether a given task can be done by A.I. before hiring a human to do it.<\/p>\n

One tech executive recently told me his company had stopped hiring anything below an L5 software engineer \u2014 a midlevel title typically given to programmers with three to seven years of experience \u2014 because lower-level tasks could now be done by A.I. coding tools. Another told me that his start-up now employed a single data scientist to do the kinds of tasks that required a team of 75 people at his previous company.<\/p>\n

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This month, millions of young people will graduate from college and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favor of artificial intelligence.That is the troubling conclusion of my conversations over the past several months with economists, corporate executives and young job-seekers, many of whom pointed to an emerging crisis for entry-level workers that appears to be fueled, at least in part, by rapid advances in A.I. capabilities.You can see hints of this in the economic data. Unemployment for recent college graduates has jumped to an unusually high 5.8 percent in recent months, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently warned that the employment situation for these workers had \u201cdeteriorated noticeably.\u201d Oxford Economics, a research firm that studies labor markets, found that unemployment for recent graduates was heavily concentrated in technical fields like finance and computer science, where A.I. has made faster gains.\u201cThere are signs that entry-level positions are being displaced by artificial intelligence at higher rates,\u201d the firm wrote in a recent report.But I\u2019m convinced that what\u2019s showing up in the economic data is only the tip of the iceberg. In interview after interview, I\u2019m hearing that firms are making rapid progress toward automating entry-level work, and that A.I. companies are racing to build \u201cvirtual workers\u201d that can replace junior employees at a fraction of the cost. Corporate attitudes toward automation are changing, too \u2014 some firms have encouraged managers to become \u201cA.I.-first,\u201d testing whether a given task can be done by A.I. before hiring a human to do it.One tech executive recently told me his company had stopped hiring anything below an L5 software engineer \u2014 a midlevel title typically given to programmers with three to seven years of experience \u2014 because lower-level tasks could now be done by A.I. coding tools. Another told me that his start-up now employed a single data scientist to do the kinds of tasks that required a team of 75 people at his previous company.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28701,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28702,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699\/revisions\/28702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}