Singapore President Warns AI Is Cutting First-Job Demand for Fresh Graduates
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Updated · Reuters · Oct 12
Singapore President Warns AI Is Cutting First-Job Demand for Fresh Graduates
3 articles · Updated · Reuters · Oct 12
Summary
Bangkok talks on Monday put fresh graduates at the center of AI concerns, with Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam urging governments to tackle weakening demand for first jobs.
The warning was tied to what he called already clear evidence that hiring is falling most sharply in sectors with the highest exposure to AI.
Tharman also said policymakers should prevent AI disruption from creating a new divergence between advanced and developing economies.
He delivered the remarks at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, framing graduate employment as an urgent global policy issue rather than a local labor-market problem.