Young devs see steepest job losses in AI-exposed roles, Stanford study finds

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AI is already reshaping the job market, and early-career workers are taking the hit, new study finds.

Workers aged 22 to 25 are the most exposed to artificial intelligence, suffering a decline in employment of 13%, according to a new Stanford University study.

The study, Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence, authored by Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ruyu Chen, draws on anonymized monthly payroll data from Automatic Data Processing (ADP) covering millions of workers across tens of thousands of U.S. firms through July 2025. 

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