AI can’t supercharge inexperience. New grads are paying the price

As AI automates away entry-level tasks, young professionals face a paradox. They’re expected to judge AI’s work while losing opportunities to develop the judgment needed to do it.

Not so many years ago, leaving college felt electric. I remember it as a moment charged with promise, rich with possibility, and alive with the feeling that a dozen doors had swung open at once. Graduates’ ambitions or enthusiasm haven’t changed today. But the job market they’re entering is unrecognizable.