The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger
One thing that struck me about their core insight - that AI is having a negative impact on AI-exposed occupations - is that it seems a lot like what we’ve seen in prior sectoral crashes.
For instance, construction employment had a nasty contraction after 2006. And employment in younger age categories plummeted even as the employment of older workers
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But young people are facing a double disruption - (1) technological creative destruction in the form of AI combined with (some form of) political creative destruction in the form of the Trump administration. When I talk to young people from New York or Louisiana or Tennessee or California or DC or Indiana or Massachusetts about their futures,... See more