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Did AI take away 200,000 creative jobs?

September 30, 2026
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More than two hundred thousand fewer jobs in the creative industries in the United States over four years. About fifty thousand disappeared in the last year alone. The figure coincides with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, and the headline seems to write its own conclusion. That AI took away those jobs. Exactly. But

More than two hundred thousand fewer jobs in the creative industries in the United States over four years. About fifty thousand disappeared in the last year alone. The figure coincides with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, and the headline seems to write its own conclusion. That AI took away those jobs. Exactly. But happening at the same time is not enough to prove it. The interesting question is how much of this decline is due to AI and how much comes from problems that were already there. And, above all, what “losing a job” means in a sector where many people work on a project basis.

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