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A robot is making pizza here, as a major study says AI is causing job loss.<\/p>\n
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AI is actually cutting employment in the United States, according to a years-long study released Tuesday by Stanford researchers spanning millions of workers over thousands of companies. The hardest-hit areas: entry-level employment in occupations where AI automates tasks rather than augments them.<\/p>\n
In other words, AI is toughest on the young.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe find that since the widespread adoption of generative AI, early-career workers (ages 22-25) in the most AI-exposed occupations have experienced a 13% relative decline in employment,\u201d Stanford researchers Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen say in an introduction<\/a> to the study.<\/p>\n Those most-exposed occupations include software development and customer service. But if we listen to Ford CEO Jim Farley, half<\/a> of all white collar jobs are at risk.<\/p>\n The study used data from ADP, the largest U.S. payroll processor, to analyze employment patterns from January 2021 through July 2025. Through this period, overall employment grew, but employment growth among young workers began to stagnate starting in late 2022. ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022, part of a growing swell in AI innovation that has continued and accelerated since then.<\/p>\n Younger workers are disproportionately impacted by AI-driven job loss.<\/p>\n Stanford<\/p>\n There are now scores of AI software development tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Replit, CodeGPT, Bolt, Amazon Q Developer, and all the major AI engines like ChatGPT and Claude also support computer code generation. And a search for \u201cAI customer service\u201d on popular business software comparison site G2 returns over 1,800 results.<\/p>\n \u201cThe AI revolution is beginning to have a significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level workers in the American labor market,\u201d the researchers say.<\/p>\n The key factor in whether AI kills jobs, however, is how it is applied.<\/p>\n Employment declines are concentrated in occupations where AI automates tasks rather than augmenting them, the study says. In fact, in occupations or roles where AI augments tasks, entry-level employment remained stable or even grew.<\/p>\n A key factor: the rate of improvement in AI tools.<\/p>\n As the study shares, AI systems could solve just 4.4% of coding problems in a widely used benchmark in 2023, but they hit 71.7% in 2024. That\u2019s a staggering rate of improvement.<\/p>\n Some good news: where AI is being used to augment work instead of replace workers, it\u2019s not having a downward impact on wages, the study says. Also, some jobs are more resistant to AI-driven job loss.<\/p>\n Some jobs are more resistant to AI-driven job loss.<\/p>\n Stanford<\/p>\n Lower AI-exposure jobs typically involve tasks that AI cannot easily do, such as caring for others, physical activities or jobs that require interpersonal interaction or creative skills.<\/p>\n Jobs, however, that are lower-end and rely more on rules and codified knowledge are easier to replace.<\/p>\n Of course, AI is getting better very quickly. So it\u2019s a bad bet to take that AI won\u2019t be able to do more and more jobs and tasks in the coming months and years. Even if recent studies suggest that corporate AI investments mostly fail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A robot is making pizza here, as a major study says AI is causing job loss. dpa\/AFP via…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[62,45,49,48,46927,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-101350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-job-loss","13":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}