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

Of course it has. That's the entire point of AI.

Ostensibly it's to help programmers, or writers, or lawyers, or whomever. But those are just the users of AI.

The owners and buyers of AI at a company level are developing and using it to push down payroll expenses. That's it. It's to avoid paying people, and providing them benefits. Even if you fire 50% of your employees, realize it was a terrible mistake, and hire most of them back, it's a net reduction in payroll costs.

I will say though as someone who solo runs their own product business, right now feels like a great time to be building your own thing.

No idea if this will last long though.