Will AI help you do your job or replace you? - BBC

The BBC asks if AI will help you do your job or replace you, as if these are distinct possibilities rather than a sliding scale of outcomes that always ends with you holding a P45. A Stanford analysis drops the cheery data point: a 2.7% employment hit for 22- to 25-year-olds since ChatGPT went mainstream. Oh, and in the 'most AI-exposed sectors' – a handy term for 'your degree in marketing automation' – that figure balloons to 12.8%. Lovely.

Ah, the class of 2026, entering a job market where the machines have already requisitioned one in eight of their roles before they've even bought a decent interview suit. Sectors most AI-exposed: think data entry, customer service, junior copywriting – all the entry-level positions that once gave the keen young graduate a foothold. Now they get a foothold in the gig economy or, if they're lucky, 'internal retraining' (read: being taught how to babysit the AI that replaced them). Cheers, Stanford.

The article dutifully includes soothing quotes about augmentation and new opportunities, because every piece of bad news must be drizzled in aspirational baloney. But the Stanford number is the only fact that matters: 12.8% disappearance, real young people, right now. The reassurances are always just around the corner – but the data is here today. Raise a warm pint of bitter to the generation that will learn to code while their jobs learn to code themselves.