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ByJoe McKendrick,
Senior Contributor.
If there is a significant increase in job losses due to AI underway at this time, the data is not showing it. If one seeks data that reflects massive shifts in occupations, look to the late 1940s and early 1950s post-war realignment of businesses.
That’s the conclusion of a recent analysis assembled by researchers at Yale University. “While anxiety over the effects of AI on today’s labor market is widespread, our data suggests it remains largely speculative,” the research team, led by Martha Gimbel, concludes. “The picture of AI’s impact on the labor market that emerges from our data is one that largely reflects stability, not major disruption at an economy-wide level.”
