--- title: "The Positive and Negative Impacts on Employment in the Context of Artificial Intelligence · AI Fault Line" url: https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-54254-2753-7048-2026-34013/ description: "AI Fault Line is a neutral, evidence-cited field guide to why experts looking at the same developments disagree about AI's effect on productivity, jobs, inequality, regulation and the pace of change." --- [Research](https://aifaultline.com/research/) # The Positive and Negative Impacts on Employment in the Context of Artificial Intelligence Wenjing Chen · Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media · 1 Jun 2026 [Read original source](https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/2026.34013) Where this sits in the debate - [Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/jobs/) · its finding: it depends ([why studies differ](https://aifaultline.com/debate/jobs/#why)) Direction of the finding as read from the abstract by an AI model ([AI-written](https://aifaultline.com/about/)). ## Key takeaway [AI-written](https://aifaultline.com/about/) A review of research on AI's dual effect on employment, substituting some jobs while creating others. It reports that AI shifts labour toward services and new high-skill industries but also deepens job contraction, skill polarization and income inequality, and notes gaps in research on industry differences and policy adaptation. ## Abstract Based on the realistic background of the current employment situation, this paper combs the dual impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market. Combined with the research findings of scholars, AI has a two-way effect of employment substitution and creation. At the same time, AI has changed the employment structure, generated a wealth of new types of high skilled industries, promoted the transfer of labor to the tertiary industry and optimized the allocation of industrial employment, and also exacerbated the structural contradictions of job contraction, skill polarization and unequal income distribution. Finally, this paper summarizes the existing research, points out the lack of industry group heterogeneity and policy adaptation, and looks forward to the future, which should be combined with the development of new quality productivity, in-depth research on the medium and long-term transmission mechanism of the scene, so as to provide theoretical support for resolving structural employment contradictions and achieving high-quality employment. ## About this publication **Book / book series.** Published as part of a book or book series — editorial review rather than journal peer review. Published 2026 (5 months ago) Citations 0 (OpenAlex) 0 citations recorded by OpenAlex — too few 2026 papers in this collection for a fair comparison. [Chart: published 2026] ## More on this topic Related by theme, not necessarily by method or conclusion. - [The Effects of Generative AI on High Skilled Work: Evidence from Three Field Experiments with Software Developers](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-2139-ssrn-4945566/) SSRN · 2024 - [GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-48550-arxiv-2303-10130/) arXiv · 2023 - [Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1126-science-adh2586/) Science · 2023 - [The simple macroeconomics of AI](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1093-epolic-eiae042/) Economic Policy · 2024 Overview assembled automatically from collected metadata. [How this site is built](https://aifaultline.com/about/).