July 31, 2026
Where AI is used, hiring has slowed.
AI is starting to show up in Australia's job ads. We compared job advertisements for occupations where AI is actually being used; jobs like software programmers, analysts and call centre workers, against similar occupations where it isn't, before and after ChatGPT arrived. Since late 2022, the AI-using occupations have been advertising roughly 390 fewer openings a month than their counterparts. That gap is too large to be chance.





