AI is changing the game for career starters and threatens a desperate new era for freshly graduated hopefuls. The rise of AI has led to a significant and measurable decline in job prospects for younger, less-experienced workers, according to a landmark study by Stanford. Research, conducted by analyzing payroll data, reveals that employment for workers aged 22 to 25 in AI-exposed roles such as software development and customer support has plummeted by 16 percent since late 2022. That is a stark contrast with older workers in the same fields who have not seen a measurable decline in their job prospects, the report says. “There’s definitely evidence that AI is beginning to have a big effect,” lead researcher and economist Erik Brynjolfsson told Axios. Part of the reason younger workers are b

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