By Clancy Yeates
Publication Date: 2026-03-22 05:45:00
A university degree has long been considered a ticket to a well-paid job, although this connection has been increasingly questioned in recent years.
But what if artificial intelligence fundamentally changes this equation and degrees offer fewer chances of being employed as an employee?
As companies around the world rush to exploit AI, Dr. Andrew Leigh, one of Labor’s leading economists, addressed this and some of the other big economic questions raised by the AI craze in a speech last week.
I thought that even if the doomsday “jobpocalysis” scenarios with mass layoffs don’t come true, we can be pretty sure that AI will have all sorts of other impacts on the job market, especially for people…
