Forbes August 26, 2025
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.
In other words, AI is toughest on the young.
“We 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,” Stanford researchers Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen say in an introduction to the study.
Those most-exposed occupations include software development and customer service.
The study used data from ADP, the largest U.S. payroll processor, to analyze employment patterns from January...
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