New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs

Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT was introduced in November 2022, experts and executives have been predicting that it and other AI models will eliminate untold jobs — forecasts that seem, at a first glance, to have been borne out by the plethora of tech sector layoffs in the wake of its debut.

But a new study from Yale University found quite the opposite in the United States, which should give anxious workers some relief as it goes against the hyped up prognostications of many tech CEOs.

“While anxiety over the effects of AI on today’s labor market is widespread, our data suggests it remains largely speculative,” reads the study from Yale’s Budget Lab, a policy research center on economics.

The research team analyzed job data from the past 33 months since ChatGPT was released, the employment