A large-scale analysis of millions of LinkedIn profiles and unemployment data shows that job prospects in AI-exposed occupations started declining in early 2022, months before ChatGPT’s November release.

The public narrative around generative AI and jobs is simple: ChatGPT launched in November 2022, and since then, prospects have worsened for workers whose tasks could be handled by language models. A new study by researchers from several US universities challenges this timeline.

The research team, led by Morgan Frank from the University of Pittsburgh, analyzed three large datasets: monthly unemployment insurance data from the US Department of Labor, 10.6 million LinkedIn profiles, and 3 million university curricula. They found that labor market problems for AI-exposed professions began in early 2022, months before ChatGPT launched.

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