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BANGKOK — Policymakers are moving from debating whether artificial intelligence will hit jobs to issuing stark warnings about AI-led disruption and recommending measures on cushioning the fallout.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned on Monday that artificial intelligence was hitting the global labor market like a “slow-moving tsunami,” with young graduates first in line to be knocked down.

“People to worry about, first and foremost, [are] young people that are coming into the labor market,” Georgieva said at a panels on Monday. “Normally, they would get into these routine, repetitive jobs and then grow up the ranks. But if they’re gone, I don’t think any young person wants to be a barista in a coffee shop as … professional future.”

Speaking on the same panel, Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who co-chairs the World Bank’s Jobs Council, called for governments to make “crisis-era” support measures a permanent tool for getting young people into work.

What governments did during the Covid-19 pandemic and, in some cases, the global financial crisis “now has to be thought of not as a crisis measure, but as part of the structural, the menu of structural policies,” he said.

That means working with the private sector, and incentivizing firms to hire fresh graduates, because “the first rung in employment, your first job upon graduation, is now seeing less demand,” Shanmugaratnam said.

The remarks show that policymakers are moving from debating whether AI will disrupt jobs to deciding how to cushion the fallout, at a time when rapidly aging populations, particularly in Asia, already threaten to shrink workforces.

World Bank President Ajay Banga, estimates 1.2 billion young people will turn 18 over the next 15 years, and the private sector, which already generates 75% to 85% of jobs in any country, will have to absorb most of them.

Governments’ role is to make that possible, he said, by building infrastructure, setting policy and “de-risking” private capital, or lowering the risks that deter investors from putting in money at scale. “It is private capital that creates jobs,” he said.

The IMF estimates that about 40% of jobs worldwide will eventually be “augmented, downgraded or eliminated.” Exposure is about 60% in advanced economies and 23% in low-income countries, she said, but poorer nations are not better off: that is “just because AI is further away.”

The squeeze is clearest in tech, Shanmugaratnam said, adding that in the U.S. “for the first time in a century, demand for graduates has gone down,” with the wage premium for a college degree also shrinking. Without action, a cohort of graduates loses more than a year of skills: “you lose trust in the future,” he said.

‘Love it, hate it, or fear it’

AI has also been the major driver propping up growth this year. AI-related investments and trade have lifted output in a handful of economies, helping keep global expansion near 3% despite an energy supply shock, Georgieva said.

“Love it, hate it, or fear it. It [AI] is here, and we are already seeing the first wave of impact,” Georgieva said, estimating AI adoption could lift growth by 0.5 percentage point to 1 percentage point in advanced Asia, and 0.2 percentage point to 0.8 percentage point in emerging Asia. At the high end, that “would more than offset the loss that comes from aging population,” said Georgieva.

Shanmugaratnam cautioned that growth alone may not necessarily deliver job creation. China, India and developing Southeast Asia are “growing quite well, but job creation is weak,” he said, and AI “is going to widen that divergence if we are too passive about it.”

AI-induced job displacement, however, will come “task by task,” he said, “and that gives us time” — provided workers can learn on the job and universities shift toward applied training.

Crude oil prices rose Monday after a deadly attack on Saudi Arabia’s airport in Riyadh, while Ukraine said Russia continued to attack its energy facilities.

Brent crude

Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen attacked King Khalid International Airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Saturday, leaving 12 people dead and more than 300 injured in a major escalation.

Meanwhile in Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Russia violated the energy ceasefire declared by President Donald Trump. Moscow attacked a gas-production facility in Ukraine, Zelenskyy said.

Prospects of more Russian energy hitting markets after a deal with the U.S. have also risen. Trump said Friday that Moscow will supply more than 4 million tons of diesel to the global market under a deal he struck with Putin during a phone call.

Elsewhere early on Monday, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said it was dealing with another round of drone and missile attacks directed at Saudi Arabia.

It comes after Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi made a phone call to Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah to discuss the region’s recent escalation of events as well as the efforts to address it, according to the Saudi state news agency,

In the U.S., about 1.2 million barrels per day of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico remained shut in Sunday due to Hurricane Isaias, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.