‘Workforce crisis’: key takeaways for graduates battling AI in the jobs market

Recruitment is powered increasingly by artificial intelligence but employers still want big (human) brains

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• Graduates share their job-hunting woes amid the AI fallout

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ChatGPT can certainly write your university essay - but will it take your job soon after? Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have given rise to fears that the technology will make swathes of the workforce redundant.

Graduates are seen as particularly vulnerable because entry-level jobs such as form-filling and basic data entry are strongly associated with the drudge work" that AI systems - which perform tasks that typically have required human intelligence - could do instead.