Artificial intelligence threatening to push young people out of entry-level jobs

Author(s): Morrison, C.

Date: 2025

Resource: The Financial Post.

Throughout her university career, Jacqueline Silver assumed her computer science degree would guarantee her a job. Finding out she was wrong was a demoralizing experience.

Silver, who graduated recently from McGill University and now lives in Toronto, spent more than a year applying for hundreds of jobs before finally finding one in her field this month.

She won’t likely be the last to scramble for work. New research shows that the spread of artificial intelligence is already eating in to the supply of jobs in multiple fields, including computer science — and it’s hitting young people the hardest.

A recent Stanford University academic paper found that early-career workers aged 22 to 25in the most AI-exposed occupations have experienced a decline in employment, while employment for experienced workers and those in less exposed fields has remained stable or continued to grow. […]

Catherine Connelly, a professor of human resources and management at McMaster University, said some companies are finding that AI is “definitely not” a replacement for humans in jobs that involve strategy and decision-making.

“Sometimes what the tool might be good for is automating some entry level tasks,” she said. “There is a danger that some people are going to not have that opportunity to come in at an entry level position, where they’re doing those routine tasks that nobody else wants to do.” […]

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