AI Risks Leaving 25% of New College Grads Jobless, Senator Says

Democratic Senator Mark Warner predicted rapidly advancing artificial intelligence threatens to drive up the unemployment rate of recent college graduates to as much as 25% within the next two to three years.

Warner warned the economic frustration of so many jobless young workers and families that have footed the cost of higher education will fuel a “level of social disruption that’s unprecedented.”

“I think this could be, by 2028, one of the most important issues,” Warner, a former telecom executive and a leading voice in the Senate on technology issues, told Bloomberg reporters and editors in a Monday interview. “We’ll ...