Democratic Sen. Mark Warner predicted rapidly advancing artificial intelligence threatens to drive up the unemployment rate of recent college graduates to as much as 25% within the next two to three years.

Warner warned the economic frustration of so many jobless young workers and families that have footed the cost of higher education will fuel a “level of social disruption that’s unprecedented.”

“I think this could be, by 2028, one of the most important issues,” Warner, a former telecom executive and a leading voice in the Senate on technology issues, told Bloomberg reporters and editors in a Monday interview. “We’ll have to meet that moment.”

The unemployment rate among 20- to 24-year-olds with a college degree hit 9.3% in August, the latest month for which data is available, accordin

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