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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: 0.437s | source
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ArtTimeInvestor ◴[28 Aug 25 15:06 UTC] No.45053123[source]▶
Every day when I am out in the city, I am amazed by how many jobs we have NOT managed to replace with AI yet.

For example, cashiers. There are still many people spending their lives dragging items over a scanner, reading a number from a screen, holding out their hand for the customer to put money in, and then sorting the coins into boxes.

How hard can it be to automate that?

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1. anthem2025 ◴[28 Aug 25 21:03 UTC] No.45057009[source]▶
They don’t need AI for that, they just cut staff to the bare minimum and put in self checkouts.
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2. generic92034 ◴[28 Aug 25 22:34 UTC] No.45057814[source]▶
And then they hire supervisors, helpers and checkout guards/security. I hope it at least makes sense on paper.