The graduates now shut out of entry-level hiring were educated precisely to work at the intersection of science and technology — the domain where AI is producing its most celebrated results. Protein engineering is advancing through new AI-driven methods that compress what used to be years of experimental iteration [3]. The Anthropic Fellows Program is recruiting emerging talent into AI research . But access to that frontier requires a first job, and the shows Amazon, Citigroup, and the federal government all pulling back simultaneously —…