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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 | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.27s | 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. tart-lemonade ◴[28 Aug 25 16:25 UTC] No.45054073[source]▶
I was also curious about this. Table A1 on page 56 lists examples of positions that are automated vs augmented, and these are the positions the authors think are going to be most augmented (allegedly taken from [0]):

- Chief Executives

- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General

- Registered Nurses

- Computer and Information Systems Managers

After skimming [0], I can't seem to find a listing of jobs that would be augmented vs automated, just a breakdown of the % of analyzed queries that were augmenting vs automating, so I'm a bit confused where this is coming from.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04761