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AI Adoption May Be Thinning the Junior Talent Pipeline
A September 2026 study by Bharat Chandar of the Stanford Digital Economy Laboratory and Bouke Klein Teeselink of King’s College London examines 1.25 billion job postings and 154 million employment records across 41 countries. The researchers infer generative AI adoption from job advertisements and compare adopting firms with control firms. Their estimates indicate that senior employment rose while the junior share fell. The employment effect is uneven by seniority
OECD releases paper on Computers and the Future of Skill Demand
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in October 2017 released a white-paper entitled Computers and the Future of Skill Demand. The study provides insights into current computer capabilities with respect to certain human skills, and what this portends for the future workplace. The report is the culmination of an exploratory project that focused on understanding current computer capabilities with respect to the three general cognitive skills needed
