Young Americans increasingly fear AI will take their jobs

jaggs

Water is wet. News at 10.

hunglee2

and those young American's would be right. AI's impact on employment is less directly replacing a human worker one to one, but suppressing hiring demand by providing potential employers with a plausible alternative to increasing headcount. This is disproportionately impacting early entry hiring as the ramp up time to productivity for inexperienced workers is today too long for companies to willingly invest for.

dude250711

They do not mind ageism though, so it's all good.

skew-aberration

It's interesting how stable the numbers are. The GPT-3 to 4 leap made a dent but it was followed by the pre-training plateau. I would have expected the huge leap with agentic AI since late 2025/early 2026 to be reflected in these numbers.

wduquette

Young Americans have been fed a constant diet of “the Modern World is Awful” and “You Are Doomed” for quite some time now. This is just the next round, and as always it is overstated.

karakoram

I do see a rebound in 2027 though. Several signals tell me things will not work out for many AI companies/startups and targets will not be met. People will have to be rehired.