NPR. This is the Indicator from Planet Money. I'm Darym Woods. And I'm Whalen Wong. You know,

Waylon, they say don't read the comments, but Indicator listeners actually leave us with some pretty thoughtful ones. They do.

We get a lot of emails, and actually

we pipe those emails into a

special Slack channel where we leave

like a light bulb emoji for the ones

that make us go, aha!

Yes, and if they point out that we

I don't know, pronounced a local town

wrong, that gets a grievous emoji.

No, but that never happens, Darian. How dare you?

But today on the show, we sift through the listener mailbox to learn from you, our audience members.

We'll hear why older software engineers may have more job security against AI and from a forensic consultant

on one idea of how to improve credentialing for crime labs.

Crime labs? Well, I'm listening.

We dust for fingerprints after the break.

All right, it is time to open up the listener mailbag. Who did you pick, Daryan?

John Cox recently wrote to us about our episode where we talked about this eye-opening

new study on the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce.

And for young people in jobs that were highly exposed to AI, their employment dropped 13% more than their older colleagues

since late 2022. And the studies authors found that younger software developers were taking a hit,

and they suggested that AI was a big part of this. At the same time, this was a bit of a puzzle,

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