There Is No Evidence of Aggregate AI Job Loss
A decade of official labor statistics from the UK Office for National Statistics and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows no net aggregate job destruction nearly four years into commercial large la…
A decade of official labor statistics from the UK Office for National Statistics and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows no net aggregate job destruction nearly four years into commercial large la…
E-commerce strategist and coach advises small e-commerce teams to measure AI's value at the level of a defined workflow rather than applying a single productivity expectation across the business. The …
A Stanford study analyzing ADP payroll data through June 2026 found that U.S. workers aged 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed occupations now have employment levels about 19% below where they would have be…
Entry-level employment in the most AI-exposed occupations fell 19 percent below that of less exposed fields for workers aged 22 to 25, according to a Stanford University study released August 25, 2026…
Stanford Digital Economy Lab research using ADP payroll data shows employment among workers aged 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is about 19% below where it would be if it had kept pace with less-e…
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson and researchers at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab have concluded that an AI-driven 'job apocalypse' is unlikely, despite impacts on entry-level jobs, according t…
A Google DeepMind paper contains multiple hallucinated references, according to a validation report that found fabricated titles and author lists paired with real arXiv and NBER identifiers. The repor…
A ZipRecruiter survey from April found that 47% of recent graduates say AI has already impacted hiring in their field, while Federal Reserve Bank of New York data shows the unemployment rate for recen…
A Stanford Digital Economy Lab study by Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ruyu Chen finds that early-career workers in AI-exposed occupations experienced a 16% relative employment decline, but th…
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson said on the Dream Machines podcast that AI's tendency to work better at larger scales could lead to a 'winner take most' outcome, as companies raise hundreds of bi…
A Stanford Digital Economy Lab working paper analyzing ADP payroll data for millions of U.S. workers through June 2026 finds no evidence of economy-wide job displacement from generative AI, but employ…
The U.S. Census Bureau reported 531,423 business applications in June, the highest sustained rate in 22 years, but Columbia Business School's Jorge Guzman and MIT's Scott Stern found that only 0.07% o…
Employment for software developers aged 22 to 25 fell nearly 20% from its late-2022 peak, while workers 30 and older in the same AI-exposed fields grew 6–12%, according to a Stanford Digital Economy L…
A Stanford Digital Economy Lab study by Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ruyu Chen found that employment among workers aged 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed occupations in the U.S. fell by 13% si…
A Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis study analyzing nearly 490,000 earnings calls from 5,198 U.S. firms between 2000 and 2025 finds that AI has not yet produced a measurable aggregate productivity bum…
Entry-level data engineering jobs have collapsed 67% since generative AI went mainstream, with only 3% of postings explicitly for juniors in 2026, according to an analysis of 6,877 active roles. Stanf…
The junior developer pipeline is broken, and AI is the culprit, according to a developer's analysis. AI has automated the grunt work that served as apprenticeship for junior engineers, eliminating the…
Generative AI has not improved productivity at the level of individual companies or the economy as a whole four years after ChatGPT's release, according to Matt Scherer, a fellow at Open Markets Insti…
Undergraduate computer science enrollment fell for the first time in roughly two decades, with the University of California system reporting a 6% decline from 2024 and a 9% drop over two years, while …
Young women are falling behind young men in the entry-level job market, but artificial intelligence is not the main driver, according to new data from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and ADP Research…