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PBS News Hour - Segments

College graduates begin their job search in a world being transformed by AI

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

We are in commencement season, when graduates look back on their accomplishments and look ahead to their future ambitions. But shifts in the economy and the anxiety around it are changing how this generation sees their prospects. Ali Rogin speaks with New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor about her book, "How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work." It's part of our series, "Rethinking College." PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Well, we are in commencement season, when graduates look back on their accomplishments

0:05.4

and look ahead to their future ambitions.

0:08.1

But shifts in the economy and the anxiety around it are changing how this generation of grads

0:13.0

see their prospects.

0:14.8

Allie Rogan has more on that as part of our series, Rethinking College.

0:19.9

Recent college graduates are facing one of the more difficult job

0:23.0

markets in many years. The unemployment rate for recent graduates, between the ages of 22 to 27,

0:29.5

is over 5.5% and some believe it's higher than that. It's above the national unemployment rate.

0:36.3

And all of the talk in forecasting about AI,

0:39.2

wiping out millions of jobs, is souring young adults on what they could face. Take a listen to this

0:44.7

montage of recent commencement speeches where a speaker talked about AI and how they were received by

0:50.1

students. Last December, Time magazine selected its person

0:55.3

of the year for 2025.

0:57.6

And this time, it was the architects

0:59.6

of artificial intelligence.

1:01.8

Interesting.

1:06.2

The rise of artificial intelligence

1:09.8

is the next industrial revolution.

1:12.6

Oh, what happened?

1:22.6

AI is rewriting production as we sit here.

1:26.6

I know it. Deal with it. Like I said, it's a tool. AI is rewriting production as we sit here.

1:29.2

I know it.

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