New Delhi, May 26 -- Artificial intelligence may pose a significant threat to millions of students who are getting ready to graduate this year, according to LinkedIn's chief economic opportunity officer, Aneesh Raman.

In an article written for the New York Times, Raman likened today's situation to that of the decline of the manufacturing sector in the 1980s, which saw a steep fall.

Raman argued that office workers are now in a similar kind of situation amid technological and economic disruption.

"Now it is our office workers who are staring down the same kind of technological and economic disruption," he wrote.

The bottom rung of the career ladder, which is the entry-level employees, will be the first to break.

"Breaking first is the...