Gen Zers are paying the price for lack of experience as AI takes their jobs. Older workers are safe—for now, Dallas Fed warns

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While millions of Gen Z workers face unemployment in the white-collar AI “job apocalypse,” older and more experienced workers are faring well, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.  

AI adoption is more complicated than technology simply taking over jobs, wrote J. Scott Davis, Dallas Fed assistant vice president, who authored the study. In AI-exposed industries, the technology is actually helping experienced workers elevate their productivity by outsourcing tasks to AI, thus enabling them to focus on work that adds more value to a company.