The Great Disappointment of AI Driven Education College graduates who pursued majors exposed to artificial intelligence (AI) have been systematically shut out of the very jobs they trained for since 2022.
According to Census Bureau data, these students are increasingly ending up in lower paying retail and food service work.
The phenomenon is not limited to AI specific fields like computer science; it's a symptom of a broader problem – one that speaks to the mismatch between what employers demand and what education provides.