For the first time in recent history, new college graduates have a higher unemployment rate than the general population. The causes are tangled, the implications are serious, and universities are caught in the middle.

In this episode, Ben sits down with David Deming, Harvard economist and Dean of Harvard College, to work through what's driving the shift and what it means for how we think about education, expertise, and careers.

Topics covered:

• Why the graduate unemployment rate is elevated and why remote work, AI, and post-pandemic labor hoarding are all suspects that probably worked together
• How remote work accelerated AI automation by first digitizing and codifying knowledge work
• Why you can beat AI on depth but not breadth, and how deep expertise still produces something AI doesn't have: taste and judgmen ...