How AI Is Actually Impacting the Job Market - DTNS 5276
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, May 26, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context and help each other understand. |
| 0:17.5 | Today we're getting into a little known topic, the effect of AI on jobs. I'm sure none |
| 0:24.6 | of you have thought about it. But we have some actual numbers on this, some studies to kick around. |
| 0:29.7 | And there's some good news. Yeah, quite a lot bubbling up there. Super interested. Talk about that. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Jason Howell. I'm Tom Merritt. Let's start with what you need to know with a big story. |
| 0:42.9 | As I mentioned, several stories today shining a light on the effect of generative models on jobs. |
| 0:48.2 | Aggregate employment in developed countries remains stable. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics or the BLS shows that the |
| 0:56.6 | unemployment rate for jobs potentially most affected by generative models is lower than for less |
| 1:03.4 | exposed occupations. That is very good news. U.S. census data shows that one in five companies is |
| 1:10.3 | using generative models in a business |
| 1:12.6 | function. That might be a little less than you would expect. So the pervasiveness of these tools |
| 1:17.2 | is probably a little overstated in the general press. The Yale Budget Lab has been studying |
| 1:24.7 | this since back when Chad GPT launched, and their report in March found |
| 1:29.4 | changes in the types of jobs was high, but that is a trend that predated the appearance |
| 1:37.4 | of Chad GPT. And when they look at unemployment duration for those in roles that are thought |
| 1:43.4 | to be exposed to AI, they didn't find an effect. |
| 1:47.1 | There is unemployment duration changes, but they don't seem to be affected by the use of the tools. |
| 1:52.0 | Now, they're going to do an update in a few weeks, and we'll see if that holds. |
| 1:55.7 | Then the MIT Technology Review had a great article detailing how we're seeing the first effect on entry-level |
| 2:02.2 | positions. And that's where the news is not as good. Anthropic released a report this past |
| 2:06.8 | March that found, and I'll quote, suggestive evidence that hiring of younger workers has |
| 2:11.4 | slowed in exposed occupations. And a working paper released November by the Stanford |
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