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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 | 4 comments | 28 Aug 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.532s | source
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fibers ◴[28 Aug 25 14:46 UTC] No.45052852[source]▶
The accounting note is not true in the traditional sense. The field in the US is just getting offshored to India/PH/Eastern Europe for better or for worse. There is even a big push to lower the educational requirements to attain licensure in the US (Big 4 partners want more bodies and are destroying the pipeline for US students). Audit quality will continue to suffer and public filers will issue bunk financials if they aren't properly attested to.
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1. elif ◴[28 Aug 25 20:24 UTC] No.45056642[source]▶
Do you have any evidence of this because the rationale seems like a coping strategy or conspiracy theory how it's being suppositioned.
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2. thinkingtoilet ◴[28 Aug 25 20:40 UTC] No.45056802[source]▶
Do you have any actual evidence that supports the headline? The article does not. It simply mentions 13% decline in relative employment and then blames AI with no actual evidence. Given what I know about the current state of AI and off-shoring, I think off-shoring is a million times more likely to be the culprit than AI.
3. fibers ◴[28 Aug 25 20:54 UTC] No.45056928[source]▶
Have you seen how the profession has worked post SOX? Did you know 2016 was the peak year where you had accounting students enrolled in uni in the states? I want you to think laterally about this.
4. stocksinsmocks ◴[29 Aug 25 01:33 UTC] No.45059020[source]▶
The entire account department at my firm has moved to Poland. That’s nice for them, but as a US citizen it does mean the writing is on the wall. On the plus side I learned a fun fact. Malgorzata is a more common name than I had ever imagined.

IT help was outsourced to India years ago. I expect them to be replaced with AI the minute their government stops handing the firm big contracts because I’ve never spoken to anyone from that group who was actually better than a chat bot.