June 27th, 2026

‘It’s not going away’: The Stanford economist who called the AI entry-level jobs crisis early has the receipts

Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson, who flagged AI's threat to entry-level jobs before it became conventional wisdom, now has the data to back it up. Working with ADP chief economist Nela Richardson, he's launching a live dashboard to track how AI is displacing early-career work in real time. The tool turns last summer's research findings into an ongoing record — making it harder for skeptics to dismiss the trend as theoretical.