Yale Budget Lab Finds AI Changed More U.S. Jobs Than It Cut Since 2022
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Updated · Business Insider · Jun 19
Yale Budget Lab Finds AI Changed More U.S. Jobs Than It Cut Since 2022
1 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Jun 19
Summary
Yale Budget Lab found AI has had only a modest effect on the U.S. labor market since ChatGPT’s 2022 debut, with job tasks changing more often than positions disappearing.
The researchers said AI exposure showed no clear link to employment or unemployment shifts, and occupational churn has tracked patterns seen after computers in the 1980s and the internet in the 1990s.
Less than 5 weeks and 27 weeks or more of unemployment showed similar trends in high-AI-exposure fields, while the number of workers unemployed because their jobs were automated stayed fairly static.
Finance and business appear more exposed than fields such as nursing, but the report said today’s weak hiring, low vacancies and layoffs likely owe more to broader conditions like high interest rates than to AI.