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Ask HN: Rigorous study on what jobs are declining due to AI now?

by AznHisoka on 10/26/25, 1:27 PM with 6 comments

All the articles and studies I've seen are just hand wavy projections, and not looking at any real data.

They do things like analyze what % of tasks of a job can be done by AI and project that x% of those jobs will be gone.

Are there any actual good studies that show what jobs are declining right now due to AI? not what theoretically could be?

  • by incomingpain on 10/26/25, 7:18 PM

    >Are there any actual good studies that show what jobs are declining right now due to AI? not what theoretically could be?

    Unemployment:

    Singapore 2%

    Russia 2.1%

    South Korea 2.5%

    Japan 2.6%

    Denmark 2.6%

    Switzerland 2.8%

    Mexico 2.9%

    Israel 2.9%

    Taiwan 3.35%

    Netherlands 4%

    United States 4.3%

    The premise of the point is job losses but that's not happening. I reject the premise and so no study is needed. You might look at:

    Spain 10.45%

    Finland 9.1%

    Sweden 8.3%

    Greece 8.1%

    France 7.5%

    But none of these are because of AI, it's because of government policies which cause unemployment.