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sshineyesterday at 8:52 PM0 repliesview on HN

To answer your question: It depends on your claim. All claims of mass unemployment thus far are evidently not true. All claims of mass unemployment in the near future: We'll have to wait and see.

The prediction that AI will lead to mass unemployment is largely a widespread fear more than an observation.

AI washing: On the one hand, you have periodic mass layoffs that could be related, but also could be "AI washing", with the companies citing AI to sound progressive when, in fact, they just over-hired.

Multiple independent sources find no broad signal. (Anthropic's labor research, Yale Budget Lab, Apollo's chief economist Torsten Sløk)

I'd still like to know more about the junior situation, though.