In related trends the infusion of AI into everything these days is quite the impetus for employers to not even bother hiring people right out of college. The AI technology could be a lot cheaper, works 24 hours a day, never complains, and needs no benefits.
I would expect law school graduates to be hardest hit. They are basically hired to do the grunt work that AI now can do.
That sort of idea has been the daydream of managers and executives for as long as I been in the workforce. And there is always some new thing presented by a smooth-talking marketing guy which promises to deliver on that dream.
The new thing never delivers the dream.
AI is the next "new thing". It will indeed provide amazing results that will be used to radically change some workplaces. But is not going to be cheap and it will take very smart people to use it and get any worthwhile results from it. Very smart people are always in short supply.
In the AI age, wasting 4 prime years being indoctrinated by hallucinating whack jobs, and foolishly going into debt for the privilege, will make someone unemployable in the free market. There's never been an easier time to make it as an imposter, even compete successfully with old timers. Fake it until you make it has become solid advice. Companies could try hiring motivated 18 year olds with AI skills, and without leftist college mental damage.