CS Grads Rejected: 5,000 Job Apps, Worse Than Art History
CS grads face 7.5% unemployment—higher than art history majors. AI job crisis hits new grads hardest.
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It's heartbreaking - graduation means unemployment.
Just as Meta is frantically recruiting AI talent with salaries exceeding hundreds of millions of dollars annually, recent computer science graduates in the United States are facing the harsh reality of unemployment upon graduation.
This validates what Anthropic founder Dario Amodei often discusses: AI might eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment rates up by 10%-20%.
What's unexpected is that AI is first eliminating graduates who studied computer science.
According to the latest New York Times report, the newest data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that graduates aged 22-27 in computer science and computer engineering are facing the most severe employment situation, with unemployment rates as high as 6.1% and 7.5% respectively.
These numbers are more than double the unemployment rate for recent graduates in biology and art history (only 3%), overturning the traditional perception of STEM employment advantages.