Replace people with machines? The growing fear in the current wave of generative AI has had an ironic improvement on hiring certain types of workers — and the need for office space in high tech — according to Moody's Analytics.

"The national office market has been on rocky footing for a few years now, but better leasing activity combined with limited construction prevented vacancy rate spikes as expected this quarter – vacancy actually fell to 18.8%, while rent grew by 0.2%. What else was happening in Q2? Artificial intelligence (AI) investment skyrocketed in the tech sector," they wrote.

That is a correlation, not necessarily causation, but then correlation also doesn't inherently mean that there can't be causation.