Nathaniel Whittemore
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51,694 appearances
202 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 2d ago
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The study looked at hiring and salary data for college graduates between 2016 and 2024, based on a dataset that represented around 29% of bachelor's degrees earned in that period.
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Researchers separated graduates into cohorts based on how exposed their profession was to AI disruption.
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The study found a notable impact on job prospects for graduates beginning from the release of ChatGPT in November 2022.
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There was a differential effect based on exposure to AI disruption, with those entering highly exposed fields seeing a five percentage point drop in employment and a 13% reduction in earnings.
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This earnings reduction was in part due to graduates taking lower paid roles outside of their area of study.
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The study noted, This earnings decline is comparable in magnitude to the earnings losses associated with graduating into large recession.
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Now, if you are looking for evidence of AI-related job disruption, this type of area, early career employees, is the most commonly pointed to.
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Eric Brynjolfsson and his crew at Stanford called it the canary in the coal mine.
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The challenge is that causation is a lot less clear than correlation.
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Many pointed out that companies have been fairly slow to adopt AI, certainly advanced uses of AI.
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And so the idea that as soon as ChatGPT was launched, they were all of a sudden changing their hiring practices is kind of suspect.
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Many will also point out that there have been a lot of other factors happening in the same period.
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The tech industry has seen significant layoffs that go back to 2022, but many point to other causes outside of AI, like a correction from pandemic era over hiring.
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There have also recently been studies that have pointed out that a lot of what some has attributed to AI is equally correlated at least to work from home, which some speculate could be negatively impacting the junior employees who haven't had a chance to build real deep relationships with their colleagues and bosses.
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Whatever the reason, it is clear that college graduates are entering an extremely tough job market right now, and this is absolutely worthy of continued study.
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Moving over to fundraising, Chinese open-source model company ZAI plans $5 billion to fund expanded compute needs.
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The fundraising was announced on Sunday and will be split between new stock issuance and convertible bonds.
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ZAI said that they would spend 60% of the proceeds on training their next-generation models, which includes building a, quote, fully self-training loop.
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This is the first time a Chinese lab has openly declared they will build recursive self-improvement, but it wasn't the only announcement along those lines.
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On Monday, a group of 33 researchers with backing from ByteDance published a research paper called The Last AI Built by Humans Towards Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement.
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