Kuala Lampur, Oct. 13 -- Silicon Valley may be offering an early warning about the future of graduate employment. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly capable of performing tasks traditionally assigned to junior employees, the greatest concern may no longer be workers losing their jobs, but fresh graduates struggling to secure their first one.

An August 2026 Stanford University study found that employment among Americans aged 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed occupations was approximately 19 per cent below where it would have been had it grown alongside less-exposed occupations. More significantly, the adjustment appeared primarily through reduced hiring rather than increased dismissals (Brynjolfsson et al., 2026). Although t...