While many fear that artificial intelligence is killing their careers, there is now new data to back it up. According to a recent paper, AI is indeed coming for certain people’s jobs.

Stanford University professor Erik Brynjolfsson, along with research scientist Ruyu Chen and postgraduate student Bharat Chandar, analysed millions of payroll records from ADP, the largest payroll provider in the U.S., from late 2022 to this summer to learn who is being most impacted by AI disruption.

Analyzing data from this timeframe is revealing because late 2022 is when OpenAI’s ChatGPT was introduced to the masses. Since then, AI has become a dominant force in our lives, upending whole industries and creating an anxious workforce that worries about being replaced.

But not everyone is affected in the same way. What the researchers found was that one age group, in particular, is vulnerable to AI displacement ― and it might not be who you think.

Entry-Level Workers Under 25 Are The Most At Risk Of Losing Jobs To AI

A new Stanford paper shows exactly who AI is replacing at work.

“The AI revolution is beginning to have a significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level workers in the American labor market,” the Stanford study stated. In the most AI-exposed fields, like software development and customer service, workers ages 22–25 “have experienced a 13% relative decline in employment.”

This finding held even when researchers accounted for factors like interest rate changes, more people being hired after COVID, and remote-friendly jobs.

Chen, one of the study’s authors, told HuffPost that the reason young people are especially vulnerable........

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