The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-evidence-that-ai-is-destroying
SOCIETY
Issue #466
1 Oct 2025
Transcript of an interview with two of the authors of the Stanford paper Canaries in the Coal Mine which was the primary source behind the media articles on graduate career crisis. It’s well worth reading to get a sense of the methodology and the findings. We talked about this at length in last week’s Brainfood Live, which I would also recommend you watch / listen. Bottom line: AI has negative impact on young people’s employment rate depending on which occupations, and within those occupations, where the AI is directed (toward non-expert routine, or expert non-routine).