{"id":138414,"date":"2025-07-08T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138414"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T22:07:53","slug":"nyt-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138414","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some experts argue that A.I. is most likely to affect novice workers, whose tasks are generally simplest and therefore easiest to automate. Dario Amodei, the chief executive of the A.I. company Anthropic, recently told Axios<\/a> that the technology could cannibalize half of all entry-level white-collar roles within five years. An uptick<\/a> in the unemployment rate for recent college graduates has aggravated this concern<\/a>, even if it doesn\u2019t prove that A.I. is the cause of their job-market struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But other captains of the A.I. industry have taken the opposite view, arguing that younger workers are likely to benefit from A.I. and that experienced workers will ultimately be more vulnerable. In an interview at a\u00a0New York Times event<\/a>\u00a0in late June, Brad Lightcap, the chief operating officer of OpenAI, suggested that the technology could pose problems for \u201ca class of worker that I think is more tenured, is more oriented toward a routine in a certain way of doing things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ultimate answer to this question will have vast implications. If entry-level jobs are most at risk, it could require a rethinking of how we educate college students, or even the value of college itself. And if older workers are most at risk, it could lead to economic and even political instability as large-scale layoffs become a persistent feature of the labor market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>

Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced?

Check out this @nytimes<\/a> piece on a pivotal time for AI in the workplace, featuring Lab Digital Fellow Sarah Bana and Postdoctoral Fellow @RuyuChen<\/a>!https:\/\/t.co\/GPmfAtjlG7<\/a><\/p>— Stanford Digital Economy Lab (@DigEconLab) July 8, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>