AI is quietly shrinking entry-level hiring — not by eliminating existing jobs, but by preventing new ones from being created, with young workers in AI-exposed roles seeing a 13% employment drop between 2022 and 2026. Because entry-level roles are how junior employees grow into senior leaders, organizations optimizing for short-term cost savings today may find themselves without an experienced talent pipeline when they need it most in the 2030s.
AI is having ‘a significant and disproportionate’ effect on young workers’ job prospects, study finds
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