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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 | 3 comments | 28 Aug 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.464s | source
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muldvarp ◴[28 Aug 25 14:37 UTC] No.45052736[source]▶
Brutal that software engineering went from one of the least automatable jobs to a job that is universally agreed to be "most exposed to automation".

Was good while it lasted though.

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polski-g ◴[28 Aug 25 14:58 UTC] No.45053037[source]▶
Its the least regulated (not at all). So it will be the first to be changed.

AI lawyers? Many years away.

AI civil engineers? Same thing, there is a PE exam that protects them.

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muldvarp ◴[28 Aug 25 15:05 UTC] No.45053117[source]▶
Same thing for doctors. Turns out radiologists are fine, it's software engineers that should be scared.
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1. manmal ◴[28 Aug 25 21:11 UTC] No.45057088[source]▶
We might end up needing 20% or so less doctors, because all that bureaucracy can be automated. A simple automated form pre-filler can save a lot of time. It’s likely that hospitals will try saving there.
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2. CHB0403085482 ◴[29 Aug 25 05:52 UTC] No.45060673[source]▶
Oh really?

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-technology-led-a-hospital...

3. siva7 ◴[29 Aug 25 13:03 UTC] No.45063578[source]▶
You know the difference between doctors and programmers? One have a regulated profession and lobby, the other have neither. Actually, all the other have is the richest amount of open training data for ai companies among all professions (and it's not medicine)