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Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | [email protected] 📝 ft.com/jbm

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I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183...

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Of course, hiring fewer juniors has long-term consequences. Where do the experienced engineers of tomorrow come from? But it’s not yet clear how that is going to resolve. Nice paper on the possibilities here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Was an honor to speak to Marketplace on NPR this morning about my piece on AI-driven arts job loss & what it means for creative industries. Give it a listen! www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...

What AI is doing to jobs in creative fields marketplace.org
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  • The U.S. has lost more than 200,000 jobs in creative industries over four years, with roughly 50,000 of those gone in the last year.
  • Film and TV shed more than 100,000 jobs, nearly a third of its workforce; written publishing lost over 70,000 in the same period.
  • Economist Joseph Politano calls it one of the worst stretches for U.S. media employment, while cautioning that AI's exact share is hard to isolate.
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New from us: Anthropic just published scenarios for AI’s possible economic impacts, which range from minimal, to explosive GDP growth of 15% by 2030 as knowledge-worker unemployment hits 18%. I sat down with their co-founder Jack Clark to pick his brains on how they’re thinking about all of this.

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