AI is not yet replacing workers in the US, researchers find

October 1, 2025

ChatGPT is not yet causing the massive upheaval in the US labor market that many have feared since the chatbot’s launch in 2022, according to a new study by a research center at Yale University.

The study comes amid widespread concerns that the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence, the technology that underpins ChatGPT, could put many jobs at risk as US companies increasingly turn to AI to cut costs through greater automation.

The researchers looked at changes since the launch of ChatGPT in the distribution of workers among all the jobs available in the economy. The chatbot is underpinned by generative artificial intelligence technology, which can create original text, images and other content in response to prompts from users.

“By measuring this over the time generative AI has been publicly available, we can test the claim that AI is substantially changing the workforce by… pushing workers from one job to another, automating workers out of a job, or creating new jobs. live-kesq