Early-career workers, aged 22-25, face a disproportionate threat to job loss from the widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to a recent research paper from Stanford University.
These workers, in most AI-exposed occupations, have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment, said the authors of the research published online on Aug. 26.
“In contrast, employment for workers in less exposed fields and more experienced workers in the same occupations has remained stable or continued to grow.”
The team of researchers—Erik Brynjolfsson, Senior Fellow at Stanford, Bharat Chandar, a postdoctoral researcher, and Ruyu Chen, a research scientist—used data collected from ADP, the largest payroll software provider in the United States….