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Attendees walk through a military community hiring event hosted by DAV and RecruitMilitary in August\u00a0at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.<\/p>\n
Michael Cuviello\/Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been the digital elephant in university classrooms, corporate offices and staffing agencies: As AI continues to redefine modern life, what exactly does it mean for people\u2019s jobs?\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A recent analysis<\/a> from the Dallas Fed offers new insight on the tech\u2019s impact within Texas: So far it\u2019s been responsible for at least some reduction in overall job openings in the state, the bank\u2019s researchers found, while certain sectors \u2014 and recent college grads \u2014 are getting hit harder.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not talking about a job apocalypse,\u201d Samuel Dodini, a senior research economist at the Dallas Fed and a co-author of the analysis, told The Dallas Morning News. \u201cBut it does represent a statistically significant slowdown in hiring.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The bank\u2019s analysis, based on a review of millions of online job postings and published in September in two companion reports, determined that in 2025 generative AI was responsible for an approximately 2.6% reduction in Texas job postings. In 2024, the researchers found, the figure was 1.8%.\u00a0<\/p>\n But for some industries and firms the impact has been significantly higher. Roughly one year after the late 2022 public release of ChatGPT, Texas job postings had fallen 5% for more-exposed positions relative to less-exposed positions, the report found. By early 2025, that figure was 8%.\u00a0<\/p>\n Similarly, relatively more AI-exposed Texas firms have also been posting fewer openings, with those firms reducing their job postings by approximately 5% to 6% by mid-2024 and 8% to 9% by early 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe should be careful to say this is not just, like, tech jobs,\u201d emphasized Dodini. \u201cThere are a lot of jobs that have a fairly high component of stuff that can be automated by these types of tools.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n He pointed to roles such as web developers and various managers who work for tech firms but are also employed across a wide range of companies and industries. \u201cAnd so I think that gives us more confidence that we\u2019re not just picking up like a sectoral or industry-specific shock,\u201d Dodini added. \u201cThis is really something that\u2019s broad-based.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Some recent Texas college graduates are also being disproportionately impacted<\/a> by the tech, the Dallas Fed researchers found. Since late 2022, students at Texas public universities whose majors are more AI-exposed have experienced a 1.7 percentage point drop in their likelihood of finding employment within a year of graduating compared to less-exposed graduates, the analysis concluded. The relatively more AI-exposed students who found jobs after 2022 also earned 5% less compared with their less-exposed peers.\u00a0<\/p>\n The more exposed majors were computer science, computer engineering and languages \u2014 translators face a particularly steep job risk \u2014 the analysis found, while nursing, education and psychology were among the least-exposed.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been telling people to learn to code for the past decade or so,\u201d said Tucker Smith, a research economist at the Dallas Fed and the other co-author of the analysis. \u201cAnd now there\u2019s some reversal of that, it seems.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The report also found that recent undergraduates with more exposed majors were more likely to pursue graduate degrees, although they mostly continued studying the same field, which may offer a limited financial upside, the researchers noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n They also emphasized that so far AI\u2019s impact on the labor market appears to manifest more by reducing new positions rather than through layoffs \u2014 a trend that\u2019s felt much more by younger job seekers.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis really early on is falling on junior workers,\u201d said Smith. \u201cThere haven\u2019t been these layoffs \u2014 there aren\u2019t a lot of, you know, software engineers kind of in midcareer or senior [level] that are being displaced in large scale. \u2026 It\u2019s more these people that would be flowing into these positions that aren\u2019t able to get them now, and so they need to kind of retool.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The analysis comes as public concern around AI metastasizes even as the technology becomes more ubiquitous, including in D-FW. In late May, a different analysis from the Dallas Fed found that two-thirds of Texas businesses<\/a>, representing a range of industries, were using AI to at least some degree, up from 40% two years earlier. Among major companies, including North Texas\u2019 two dozen Fortune 500 companies, the usage rate is likely 100%.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yet while the technology continues to drive economic investment and has lately propelled the stock market to new records, surveys show that many Americans are also growing more skeptical. One poll released this month, from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found that 64% of adults now believe AI is developing too quickly<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The finding comes soon after a new wave of AI executives and whistleblowers have warned, often in stark terms, about the tech\u2019s potential existential threat to humanity, and as the data centers powering the AI rush continue to stoke a fierce cultural and political backlash. Thanks in part to its abundant land and relatively cheap energy, North Texas, which already ranks among the country\u2019s biggest data center hubs, is poised to become an even bigger player, with some analysts predicting the region will become the largest data center market in the world<\/a> within several years.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of nuance to it,\u201d Brant Bernet, an executive vice president at the commercial real estate firm CBRE, told The News last month. \u201cBecause you need the tech talent. You need the people that can build it. You need people that can run it once it\u2019s up and running. You need engineers. You need security teams and all of that. And I think that because there\u2019s such a preponderance of that in Dallas, it\u2019s just an easy place to go.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n For the report, Dallas Fed researchers analyzed an online jobs data set from Lightcast, a labor market intelligence company, and determined various occupations\u2019 level of exposure to AI by using a metric developed by the AI firm Anthropic that maps job tasks in the Department of Labor\u2019s widely used O*NET occupational\u00a0dataset.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attendees walk through a military community hiring event hosted by DAV and RecruitMilitary in August\u00a0at AT&T Stadium in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-463668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}