Young Americans seem to be having trouble landing jobs in fields with high exposure to artificial intelligence, researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found in a new report.
Roughly 14.4% of Americans ages 20 to 24 who searched for jobs in high-AI-exposed fields in 2025 landed offers within a month, down from about 17.6% two years earlier,the report found. The share of young people employed in those fields — which include many white-collar roles like sales representatives and computer programmers — also slipped about one percentage point over the same period, to 15.5% from 16.4%.
“If you’re age 20 to 24 and planned on being in one of those occupations, then that decline in employment is very, very large,” said Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas senior economist Tyler Atkinson, who led the research…