AI Is Squeezing Out Entry-Level Jobs, Stanford Study Finds

The analysis, primarily based on employment knowledge from payroll firm ADP, examined how jobs in fields extra more likely to be influenced by AI have modified.

The examine discovered that folks simply beginning their careers are being impacted probably the most. Since 2022, job alternatives for younger employees in AI-sensitive roles have decreased by 13%. As compared, older employees in the identical fields haven’t seen the identical sort of decline.

For these simply beginning out in fields like buyer assist and software program improvement, job numbers fell by about 20% between late 2022 and mid-2025. Nevertheless, for extra skilled employees doing comparable jobs, employment really elevated.

Different areas affected equally embody accounting, administrative assist, programming, and gross sales. Throughout some of these jobs, folks aged 22 to 25 noticed a 6% drop in employment. In distinction, older staff in the identical industries skilled development between 6% and 9%.

One motive for this pattern could also be that newer employees are inclined to rely extra on the kind of info that AI techniques are additionally educated on.

Then again, extra skilled staff usually have sensible information gained over time. These expertise, corresponding to efficient communication, decision-making, or work-specific insights, are tougher for AI to repeat.

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