> You really do have to account for why this is mainly happening in industries that are adopting AI

Correlation is not causation. The original research paper does not prove a connection.

> I doubt very much that these three Stanford professors would be blindsided by the concept of rates and tarriffs.

They are nonetheless subject to publish or perish pressure and have strong incentives to draw publishable attention-grabbing results even where the data is inconclusive.

> I doubt very much that these three Stanford professors would be blindsided by the concept of rates and tarriffs.

Digital Economy Lab and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

I fully expect that these professors would be blindsided by even the most rudimentary real world economics.

Tariffs are just a massive government revenue generating consumption tax on particular industries. We would expect unemployment among the young trying to enter those industries to be hit hardest.