WASHINGTON (July 15, 2026) – According to new research from Goldman Sachs, college graduates could feel the effects of AI in the near term, since adoption is moving fastest in industries like finance, management, and professional services, where they make up more than 60% of the workforce.
In addition, researchers believe AI will create new jobs to replace some of the jobs it takes away, as other emerging technologies have done in the past. Young adults entering college are already adjusting to the AI-driven shift in the labor market. Students are pulling back from once-popular majors like computer and information sciences while gravitating toward fast-growing fields such as healthcare.
For more analysis on these developments, please consider Ryan Watkins, professor of Educational Technology, and author of eleven books and more than 95 articles. His publications are frequently cited in the performance improvement literature, making him the 4th most cited author of journal articles in the field. Ryan is an active member of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), the American Evaluation Association (AEA), and has served as a vice president of the Inter-American Distance Education Consortium (CREAD).
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