AI is cutting into entry-level jobs, according to a new Stanford University study, released on Tuesday.

Stanford researchers analyzed ADP payroll data, which included monthly payroll information for millions of workers at thousands of companies, to find how AI impacts employment for people ages 22 to 25 compared to other age groups.

The study found that the professions most exposed to automation with AI were operations managers, accountants, auditors, general managers, software developers, customer service representatives, receptionists, and information clerks. In those AI-impacted jobs, which lost the most entry-level positions to the technology, employment for young workers has declined by 13% over the past three years.

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"There's definitely evidence that AI is beginning to have a big effect," Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford professor, economist, and first author on the study, told Axios. He called the trend of reduced entry-level hiring "the fastest, broadest change" that he had ever seen in the workplace, second only to the shift to remote work during the pandemic.

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