AI Is Making It Harder for Young People to Get Jobs |
Youth unemployment has surged far more than other age groups.
BY PHIL ROSEN, CO-FOUNDER AND EDITOR, OPENING BELL DAILY @PHILROSENN
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Artificial intelligence isn’t driving mass layoffs but it is still driving radical shifts in the labor market.
While companies like Amazon and Walmart have blamed job cuts on AI this year, the data instead suggest a quiet, more pointed hiring freeze specifically at the entry level.
Rather than framing this as robots taking human jobs, the