{"id":2320,"date":"2026-03-25T19:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:11:26","slug":"new-college-grad-unemployment-will-spike-to-35-in-2-years-senator-warns-and-dario-sam-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=2320","title":{"rendered":"New college grad unemployment will spike to 35% in 2 years, senator warns, and ‘Dario, Sam’ know it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Regardless of whether AI will lead to a \u201cjob apocalypse\u201d or make work optional, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) is warning \u201cthe battle of our time will be AI\u201d\u2014and he predicts it\u2019ll be particularly difficult for new grads entering the workforce, who face an 5.6% unemployment rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI will bet anybody in the audience that goes to 30 or 35% within the next two years,\u201d Warner said. \u201cAnd if we don\u2019t figure this out\u2014I say this as a pro-AI, pro-tech guy\u2014we\u2019re going to get screwed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warner\u2019s estimate may seem extreme, but it tracks with AI leaders who are towing the line between warning the public of their tech predictions and\u00a0 starting widespread panic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you take Dario, Sam, you take all the evangelists. I think they are literally consciously pulling back on their predictions because of the short-term economic disruption,\u201d Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said during a panel at the Hill and Valley Forum, a conference bringing together Washington policymakers and Silicon Valley executives on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Warner, speaking at the panel entitled \u201cFrom Capital to Capability: Rebuilding U.S. Industrial Strength\u201d at the event, has often made statements to similar effect.Last week, Warner blasted the White House\u2019s framework to regulate AI, saying it \u201clacks significant substance.\u201d The Trump administration laid out general policy areas for Congress to address, including children\u2019s privacy, intellectual property rights, and developing \u201can AI-ready workforce.\u201d In a statement, Warner faulted the White House for shutting down the Senate Intelligence Committee\u2019s bill on national security threats from advanced AI and ignoring AI-powered misinformation entirely.<\/p>\n

The senator warned that it\u2019s in the companies\u2019 hands, not the government\u2019s, if they want to reduce the adverse effects of AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you expect the government officials alone to solve this, you\u2019re missing the boat. We desperately need your input and ideas and suggestions,\u201d Warner, who is the former founder and managing director of venture capital firm Columbia Capital.<\/p>\n

Warner pointed toAnthropic\u2019s Claude\u2019s footprint on software and HR job losses as reasons for AI executives to temper their public comments. Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that companies are \u201cAI-washing\u201d layoffs and using the technology as a scapegoat for workforce reductions. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has pulled back since his declaration last May that AI could wipe out 50% of entry-level office jobs. In more recent comments, he\u2019s shied away from specific predictions about the scale of AI-related job loss, and instead, wrote the technology will cause \u201cunusually painful\u201d disruption in a wide-ranging 20,000-word essay in January. Yet, a recent survey of CFOs found that only 0.4%, or about 502,000 roles out of about 125 million roles, are expected to be lost this year.<\/p>\n

Warner explained that AI disruption is different from the labor transformation that globalization caused because it will affect white-collar jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we go way back in time, like three or four years ago, we would have said the policy prescription is, \u2018let\u2019s make everybody learn how to code.\u2019 At least that was well intentioned, but completely the wrong answer,\u201d Warner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Warner says the government \u2018desperately\u2019 needs industry input\u00a0<\/p>\n

Warner acknowledged the limits of the federal government to handle the potential economic fallout of AI disruption.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to need the capabilities of the AI community to help us figure it out, and candidly, the largest players help pay for it, because I think this transition will be exponentially bigger than I believe today is going to be exponentially bigger and quicker than even what I believed five months ago.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Students are already thinking of potential AI job displacement-proof careers before they even graduate. He gave the example of business: 1.63 million students, or nearly 9% of students, were enrolled in business bachelor\u2019s degrees in 2025, making it the most popular degree in the U.S. Yet, the business and financial services industry is one of the most AI-exposed sectors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are where jobs are going to go. Maybe, Anthropic and OpenAI ought to go ahead and put up a fund to convert people from being business administration majors to nurses, at least in the short term,\u201d but advised against government retraining programs, like Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers., which he said, \u201chave mostly been bullshit.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pointed to how the government has struggled to regulate social media with dozens of bills that have failed to pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSocial media is tiny compared to AI,\u201d he said. \u201cI cannot stress enough that if we don\u2019t get this transition right, all of the innovation opportunities, all of the healthcare opportunities, could get snuffed out.\u201d He pointed to immigration barriers against international talents, such as the Trump administration\u2019s $100,000 fee on H-1B visas, typically held by Indian and Chinese tech workers.<\/p>\n

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