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Business Daily

Generation AI

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Entry level jobs are likely to be the most affected by artificial intelligence. AI can already do a lot of tasks typically given to junior staff, and businesses are already looking at their hiring policies as a result. We speak to recruiters, businesses, and graduates about what the job search is like right now, and how the world of work could be shaped by advances in technology in the future.

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Presented and produced by Hannah Mullane

(Picture: A team of young people in a modern office discussing their project. Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Hannah Malaine.

0:08.2

All this week, we're looking at how artificial intelligence or AI is changing the business world.

0:13.9

And today we're focusing on a topic close to all our hearts, jobs.

0:18.4

They don't want to hire 10 engineers. They want to hire one engineer, and they want

0:22.2

that one engineer to be 10 times more productive. This is a totally different trend than, you know,

0:28.6

10 years ago or 5 years ago, and then we're not going to hire as many people.

0:33.2

Artificial intelligence is transforming the job market, especially for graduates and entry-level workers,

0:39.6

a group that experts predict will bear the brunt of AI-driven job losses.

0:43.7

The sort of lower stakes, less interpersonal, the kind of spreadsheets and drafts and documents

0:50.3

that so many of us kind of cut our teeth in our careers doing,

0:54.9

that's the kind of stuff that AI is increasingly really good at.

0:58.2

As graduates enter one of the toughest job markets in decades,

1:02.3

we'll explore how much of that is due to AI.

1:05.1

And we'll speak to businesses about the changes they're seeing

1:08.0

and what the future of work might look like.

1:10.9

That's all coming up on this episode of Business Daily.

1:24.3

I'm a recent graduate from Lehigh.

1:27.1

I studied journalism, so graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

1:31.8

I initially went into school knowing that I wanted to pursue journalism because I did it all throughout high school.

1:38.6

And Lehigh has an award-winning student newspaper that I knew I wanted to be involved in since day one.

1:46.7

Kirby Child had a strong vision. She knew the job she wanted and what she needed to study to get it.

1:53.6

Well, she thought she did. Kirby graduated in May and has moved back in with her parents while

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