AI Adoption Boosts Hiring, But Opportunities Favor Senior Workers

A new study covering 41 countries found that companies using artificial intelligence added more jobs than firms that did not use AI, but the new positions went disproportionately to senior employees rather than entry-level workers. According to Sina Finance, the paper by Stanford University’s Bharat Chandar and Bouke Klein Teeselink of King’s College London, published on Monday, said senior roles at AI-adopting firms grew 6.7% over five years, while entry-level employment fell 3% over the same period. The researchers said the share of entry-level workers at these companies declined by 1.9 percentage points, with the drop in lower-level jobs seen in countries including Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom. They wrote that in occupations more exposed to AI, artificial intelligence reduced demand for junior workers while increasing demand for senior workers, and that employment losses for junior workers were more pronounced in richer, more digital economies. The study analyzed 1.25 billion job postings and 154 million employment records from January 2021 to March 2026. It also found that the share of employment in computer-related and mathematics roles most exposed to AI rose by 0.8 percentage points at AI-adopting firms, and said those jobs also showed a shift toward senior workers.