AI may cause a college graduate job crisis. What should young people do?
There's comforting news for veteran office workers and professionals, but bad news for recent college graduates. When it comes to the future of jobs, new data suggest that artificial intelligence (A.I.) may threaten young people's employment prospects more than any other group.
Recent studies show that we're very close to a college graduate unemployment crisis, because entry-level white collar jobs are the easiest to be replaced by artificial intelligence. Most graduates entering the workforce do repetitive research and number-crunching jobs — precisely the ones A.I. does best.
Unemployment among U.S. college graduates has risen 30%, from 2% to 2.6%, since September 2022. By comparison, unemployment among the general population has grown by only 18%, from 3.4% to 4%, according to Federal Reserve Bank of New York data.
The ADP Research Institute, which specializes in labor market data, said in a report that 'finding a job has become harder' for young college graduates. This is not due to an oversupply of graduates: In fact, full-time student enrollment at U.S. higher education institutions has fallen in recent years, as The Wall Street Journal reported on May 19.
A recent survey of 3,000 executives by LinkedIn, the social media platform, found that 63% agreed A.I. will eventually eliminate the jobs currently done by entry-level employees.
Curious about how A.I. will impact all jobs — including mine — in the future, I contacted last year's co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Daron Acemoglu. In a wide-ranging interview, he told me that he doesn't think experienced attorneys, accountants, physicians, teachers or journalists will lose their jobs to A.I. — at least not over the next 10 years.
'I would not want an A.I. to represent me in court,' Acemoglu told me. 'We're not going to see the end of lawyers, accountants, auditors, marketing professionals. These are deeply complex jobs.'
He added that current A.I. models and the ones that are likely to be developed in the near future will be able to handle parts of these jobs, but not replace humans entirely.
'The same for physicians,' he said. A.I. is getting better and better at diagnosis, but there is a lot of tacit knowledge that doctors gain through experience that A.I. will find hard to replicate, he added.
A doctor learns a lot from a patient's body language, or from the way a person describes his pain, or from the way different parts of the body react when touched, Acemoglu explained.
But when I asked him about A.I.'s impact on young people's employment opportunities, he started by saying, 'Well, I'm worried, I wouldn't hide that from you.'
As for what advice he's giving his students and other young people these days, he said they should focus on specialization and flexibility.
'The advice I would give is to build very specialized skills that they can be excellent in some domain, so that they are a potential partner for AI, not a target,' he said. And flexibility is essential, too, 'because you need to change what you do as technology changes,' he added.
Acemoglu, who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), says a small group of technology barons who dominate the industry are partly to blame for the college graduate unemployment problem. They are creating A.I. programs to help companies cut costs by eliminating jobs, rather than focusing on increasing productivity and creating more jobs.
I confess that, after speaking with Acemoglu and other experts in recent months, I'm less optimistic than I used to be. When I wrote my 2018 book 'The Robots Are Coming,' about the future of jobs in the age of automation, I was a cautious techno-optimist.
I tended to believe the technology industry mantra that new technological breakthroughs always end up creating more jobs than they destroy. But now? I'm not so sure.
Think about it: When Henry Ford rolled out the car manufacturing assembly line in the early 20th century, sure, carriage makers and stable hands lost out. But whole new industries were created to build roads, bridges, tires and other car parts. But today, when a supermarket replaces a human cashier with an automated checkout machine, that job usually just disappears.
To be sure, having a college — or, better, a graduate — degree is more important than ever. Even the latest figures show that those with college diplomas are much less likely to be unemployed than the general population.
But it's imperative for high schools and colleges to teach students, in addition to specialized skills, how to use A.I. as a tool in their careers — not just as an enhanced Google search engine.
That would help college graduates get jobs that until recently were reserved for people with two or three years of work experience. Without that, A.I. may end up hurting recent graduates more severely than it affects older, more experienced workers.
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The S&P 500 is hovering near an all-time high, but some stocks in the software space still haven't reclaimed their best levels from 2021. Datadog and Workiva are two of those stocks, but their strong businesses could fuel a recovery over the long term. Analysts have reached a very bullish consensus on both Datadog and Workiva. 10 stocks we like better than Datadog › The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has almost fully recovered from its recent 19% drop, which was triggered by President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs in April. But not every stock is following along -- in fact, many enterprise software stocks still haven't reclaimed their record highs from 2021. Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) and Workiva (NYSE: WK) are two of those stocks. They were incredibly overvalued when they peaked a few years ago, and they are still down by 36% and 57%, respectively, from those lofty levels. But they're starting to look quite attractive. The majority of the analysts tracked by The Wall Street Journal who cover Datadog stock and Workiva stock have assigned them the highest possible buy rating. Here's why their optimism might be justified. Datadog developed an observability platform that monitors cloud infrastructure around the clock, alerting businesses to technical issues and outages which they might not have discovered until customers were affected or sales were lost (at which point it's too late). Over 30,500 businesses are using Datadog, and they operate in many different industries, including gaming, manufacturing, financial services, retail, and more. Last year, Datadog expanded into artificial intelligence (AI) observability with a new tool that helps developers troubleshoot technical issues, track costs, and assess the outputs of their large language models (LLMs). During the recent first quarter of 2025 (ended March 31), the company said that the number of customers using this new tool more than doubled compared to just six months earlier, which suggests it's gaining serious traction. Datadog also offers other AI products, like a monitoring solution for businesses using ready-made LLMs from OpenAI, and an AI-powered virtual assistant for its flagship observability platform. Overall, the company said that 4,000 customers were using at least one of its AI products in Q1, which also doubled year over year. On the back of a strong first-quarter result, Datadog raised the high end of its full-year revenue forecast for 2025 to $3.235 billion, up $40 million from management's original guidance. It would represent growth of 21% from the company's 2024 result, but it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to the $53 billion addressable opportunity in the observability space alone. Datadog was trading at a price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of around 70 when it peaked in 2021. But the 36% decline in the stock since then, in combination with the company's revenue growth, has pushed its P/S ratio down to 15.5. It's still elevated compared to many other enterprise software stocks, but it's much closer to the cheapest level since Datadog went public than it is to its lofty 2021 peak. The Wall Street Journal tracks 46 analysts who cover Datadog stock, and 31 have assigned it the highest possible buy rating. Seven others are in the overweight (bullish) camp, and the remaining eight recommend holding. No analysts recommend selling. Their average price target of $140.72 implies a potential upside of 15% over the next 12 to 18 months, but investors who hold the stock for the long term could do far better as Datadog's AI products gather momentum. Modern businesses often use dozens, or even hundreds, of digital applications to run their day-to-day operations. This is a nightmare for managers who are tasked with tracking workflows across all that software, but Workiva built an elegant solution to ease the burden. Workiva's platform integrates with most storage applications, systems of record, and productivity software, allowing managers to pull data from all of them onto one dashboard. This saves them from having to open hundreds of individual applications, and it also reduces human error, which is common when copying mountains of data manually. Once data is loaded into Workiva, managers can select from several different templates so they can rapidly compile regulatory filings or reports for senior executives. Workiva is also becoming a key player in the ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting space, offering a product that allows businesses to track their effect on all key stakeholders, not just those with a financial interest. With Workiva's ESG platform, organizations can create frameworks, track data, and compile reports on everything from their carbon emissions to the diversity of their workplace. Workiva had 6,385 total customers at the end of Q1 2025, which was a 5% increase from the year-ago period, but its highest-spending cohorts are growing significantly faster. For example, the number of customers with annual contract values of at least $100,000 grew by 23%, and those with annual contract values of at least $500,000 soared by 32%. In other words, larger organizations with more complex operations seem to be flocking to Workiva. The company expects to generate up to $868 million in total revenue in 2025, which would be a 17.5% increase compared to 2024. That would be a modest acceleration from the 17.3% growth it delivered last year. As is the case with Datadog, Workiva's P/S ratio is currently down significantly from its 2021 peak. It's at 4.8 as of this writing, which is near the cheapest level since the stock went public. The Wall Street Journal tracks 13 analysts who cover Workiva stock, and 11 of them have given it a buy rating. The remaining two are in the overweight camp, with none recommending to hold, let alone sell. Simply put, the analysts have reached a very bullish consensus. Their average price target of $97.64 implies an eye-popping potential upside of 44% over the next 12 to 18 months. But the stock could do even better over the long term, since Workiva has barely scratched the surface of its $35 billion addressable market. Before you buy stock in Datadog, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Datadog wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. 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