Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI
The results don’t look good for those in the most exposed fields, with career and earnings prospects for the top decile (i.e., the top ten percent of majors most exposed to AI) looking as bad as those of older Millennials who graduated during the Great Recession. “The most AI-exposed decile of college majors saw their likelihood of initial employment decline by five percentage points, while full-quarter initial earnings declined by 13 percent,” a trio of Census Bureau economists wrote in the paper. “This earnings decline is comparable in magnitude to the earnings losses associated with graduating into a large recession.” REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); And why are those earnings declining?
- ▪The results don’t look good for those in the most exposed fields, with career and earnings prospects for the top decile (i.e., the top ten percent of majors most exposed to AI) looking as bad as those of older Millennials who graduated duri
- ▪“The most AI-exposed decile of college majors saw their likelihood of initial employment decline by five percentage points, while full-quarter initial earnings declined by 13 percent,” a trio of Census Bureau economists wrote in the paper.
- ▪“This earnings decline is comparable in magnitude to the earnings losses associated with graduating into a large recession.” REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); And why are thos
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