The BLS data also accounts for federal, state, and local government jobs, which was the biggest loser with about 438,000 jobs lost.
At last month’s World Economic Forum in Davos, attendees sounded the alarm about how AI is eating into white-collar and entry-level jobs. “We expect over the next years, in advanced economies, 60% of jobs to be affected by AI — either enhanced, eliminated, or transformed — and 40% globally. This is like a tsunami hitting the labor market,” said Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
White-collar workers include knowledge workers in professional roles such as software, finance, research, and science, said Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. “I think maybe we’re starting to see just the little beginnings of it in software and coding,” he said.
