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AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study

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440 points pseudolus | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.562s | source
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techpineapple ◴[28 Aug 25 14:24 UTC] No.45052548[source]▶
I’m suss about this paper when it makes this claim:

“where AI is more likely to automate, rather than augment , human labor.”

Where is AI currently automating human labor? Not Software Engineering. Or - what’s the difference between AI that augments me so I can do the job of three people and AI that “automates human labor”

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1. WillPostForFood ◴[28 Aug 25 15:00 UTC] No.45053059[source]▶
When the Stanford paper looked at augment vs automate, they used the data from Anthropic's AI Economic Index. That paper defined the terms like this:

We also analyze how AI is being used for tasks, finding 57% of usage suggests augmentation of human capabilities (e.g., learning or iterating on an output) while 43% suggests automation (e.g., fulfilling a request with minimal human involvement).

From the data, software engineers are automating their own work, not augmenting. Anthropic's full paper is here:

https://arxiv.org/html/2503.04761v1

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2. techpineapple ◴[28 Aug 25 15:32 UTC] No.45053485[source]▶
Sounds like a snake eating it's own tail.