September 21 news—A new study involving 41 countries reveals that companies adopting artificial intelligence hire more positions than those that do not, but the new roles lean heavily toward senior staff rather than junior employees. In a paper released on Monday, Bharat Chandar of Stanford University and Bouke Klein Teeselink of King's College London indicated that among companies using AI, the number of senior staff grew by 6.7% over five years, while junior employment declined by 3% during the same period. Despite the overall rise in hiring, the proportion of junior staff dropped by 1.9 percentage points. This trend of reduced junior staff was observed across multiple countries, including Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and the UK. The authors noted that in affected occupations, AI exhibits a labor-saving effect for junior employees and a labor-expanding effect for senior staff. The loss of junior employment is more pronounced in wealthy, highly digitized economies.