{"id":824737,"date":"2026-08-25T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824737\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:08:10","slug":"ai-is-hitting-entry-level-jobs-hardest-stanford-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824737\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"


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For 22-25 year olds, jobs where \u201cautomative\u201d users of AI are especially prevalent show heavily declining entry level employment rates.<\/p>\n

For 22-25 year olds, jobs where \u201cautomative\u201d users of AI are especially prevalent show heavily declining entry level employment rates.<\/p>\n

Brynjolfsson et al<\/a><\/p>\n


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For jobs where AI is merely \u201caugmentative,\u201d the entry level jobs picture is much more muddled.<\/p>\n

For jobs where AI is merely \u201caugmentative,\u201d the entry level jobs picture is much more muddled.<\/p>\n

Brynjolfsson et al<\/a><\/p>\n

For 22-25 year olds, jobs where \u201cautomative\u201d users of AI are especially prevalent show heavily declining entry level employment rates.<\/p>\n

Brynjolfsson et al<\/a><\/p>\n

For jobs where AI is merely \u201caugmentative,\u201d the entry level jobs picture is much more muddled.<\/p>\n

Brynjolfsson et al<\/a><\/p>\n

Stay in school, kids<\/p>\n

The researchers also theorized that entry-level workers could be especially affected by AI\u2019s impact on jobs requiring heavily \u201ccodified\u201d knowledge\u2014the kind of \u201cformal, standardized, documented knowledge that can be taught through education, textbooks, or written procedures.\u201d That would contrast with jobs where AI mainly complements an experienced worker\u2019s more \u201ctacit\u201d knowledge, which is overwhelmingly \u201cacquired through practice, mentorship, and repeated exposure to real situations,\u201d the researchers write.<\/p>\n

To test this hypothesis, the researchers used the required level of formal education in O*NET\u2019s extensive occupational database<\/a> as a proxy for how reliant that job is on codified knowledge. Breaking out the employment data, the researchers found that \u201coccupations with higher codified knowledge have slower entry-level employment growth, while occupations with higher tacit knowledge have faster employment growth for mid-career and senior workers.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, the researchers found that higher education might still serve as a buffer against the employment effects the Stanford researchers identified. As they write, occupations with a higher share of college graduates showed more \u201cmuted differences between more-exposed and less-exposed occupations\u201d regarding AI. In jobs with few college graduates, on the other hand, \u201cthe least AI-exposed occupations [saw jobs] growing and the most exposed occupations [were] declining in employment.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with The Washington Post, lead researcher Erik Brynjolfsson warns that the current trends suggest a near future in which jobs for those employed in the pre-AI era largely persist while many jobs for the incoming working-age cohort start disappearing.\u00a0\u201cThe entry-level effects we\u2019re measuring are real, persistent and widening,\u201d he said, \u201cand I\u2019m more worried than I was about a labor market that keeps its overall employment level while quietly closing the on-ramp for people starting their careers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For 22-25 year olds, jobs where \u201cautomative\u201d users of AI are especially prevalent show heavily declining entry level…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-824737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}