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March 202631 sources

Substack (Alex Imas, Soumitra Shukla — U of Chicago Booth)·Mar 2026·Tier 4

Two jobs with identical exposure scores can have completely opposite displacement risks depending on whether their tasks are complements, whether demand for their output is elastic or inelastic, and the incentives of the firm to invest in automation. The workers at greatest risk are not necessarily those with the highest average exposure, but those whose jobs are built around a small number of core tasks that AI can automate.

The Budget Lab at Yale·Mar 2026·Tier 1

The addition of the January and February 2026 CPS and the introduction of Anthropic's 'Observed Exposure' metrics do not suggest any substantial changes. Occupational dissimilarity, industry dissimilarity, and exposure and usage metrics all remain flat, lie within historical ranges, or continue along pre-existing trends.

Goldman Sachs Research (Joseph Briggs)·Mar 2026·Tier 2

6-7% of workers will be displaced during that transition period. In the US, AI can potentially automate tasks that account for 25% of all work hours. Goldman Sachs Research expects to see a 0.6 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate over a decade.

Boston College / Arizona State (Freund, Mann)·Mar 2026·Tier 1

average individual wages are roughly unchanged for incumbents of occupations with no AI exposure, rise by around 4% at moderate exposure, and drop by as much as 35% for workers in the most exposed occupations

CoworkingCafe (Yardi Systems)·Mar 2026·Tier 3

AI professionals earn $215,000, on average, in San Jose, CA — the highest in the country. But, with living costs 13% above average, that premium narrows. For comparison, in Dallas–Fort Worth, TX, $128,000 salaries stretch further with costs just 3% above average.

Yale Department of Economics (Restrepo, interviewed by Strathmann)·Mar 2026·Tier 3

A lot of these claims are premature. Many of the people making them have an interest in selling a product. Right now I would describe the labor market as more of a wait-and-see environment. You cannot automate everything tomorrow because we simply don't have enough computing power to do it.

RATIO Institute / Örebro University (Lodefalk, Löthman, Koch, Engberg)·Mar 2026·Tier 1

An event study documents an accelerating decline in employment of 22–25-year-olds in high-AI-exposure occupations, reaching 5.5 per cent by early 2025 relative to less exposed occupations within the same employers, while employment of workers over 50 rose by 1.3 per cent.

Washington Post (Schaul, Ovide)·Mar 2026·Tier 3

Two points of general agreement stand out: There's no measurable evidence so far that AI is putting Americans as a whole out of work, economists say. And while the victims of past workplace automation were mostly factory and trade workers, it's white collar jobs that are first in line for AI shake-ups today.

a16z (citing Bank of America, Haver Analytics)·Mar 2026·Tier 3

New business applications remain elevated but 'high propensity to hire' applications are in decline. SMBs are rapidly increasing tech spend (including AI) while payroll spend is flat or declining — consistent with AI-native solopreneurs substituting software for labor.

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta / Duke University (Baslandze et al.)·Mar 2026·Tier 1

Survey of ~750 CFOs finds AI adoption widespread (58.5% in 2025, 85.4% expected 2026). Implied revenue-based labor productivity gains of 0.6% in 2025, 1.8% expected 2026, with largest gains in finance (>2%). Aggregate employment decline <0.4% in 2026 (~502K workers). Routine clerical roles declining; skilled-technical rising. Productivity paradox: reported gains 3x larger than implied revenue-based gains.

Peterson Institute for International Economics (Jed Kolko)·Mar 2026·Tier 2

The evidence on how AI is affecting the labor market today is inconclusive, and claims about harmful impacts on particular groups of workers are premature. Initial evidence suggests that transitional disruption from AI to date is not outpacing recent technological changes.

David Oks (Substack)·Mar 2026·Tier 4

I'm skeptical that simply slotting AI into human-shaped jobs will have the results people seem to expect... as long as we are in that regime, I expect disappointing productivity gains and relatively little real displacement.

The Business Journals·Mar 2026·Tier 3

89% of the respondents said they have no plans to cut staff or lay off workers because of AI. Just 3% said they have already cut staff, while 7% said they have plans to reduce their workforce within the next year.

Google Research / Google DeepMind / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center·Mar 2026·Tier 1

AMIE's differential diagnosis included the final diagnosis in 90% of cases, with 75% top-3 accuracy. Blinded assessment suggested similar overall DDx and Mx plan quality between AMIE and PCPs. Human safety supervisors did not need to intervene to stop any consultations.

The Wall Street Journal·Mar 2026·Tier 3

The U.S. Army's 18th Airborne Corps, using software from data company Palantir Technologies in a continuing string of exercises dubbed Scarlet Dragon, matched its own record from Iraq as the military's most efficient targeting operation ever. Thanks to AI, the corps achieved that with only 20 people, compared with more than 2,000 staffers employed in Iraq.

Anthropic (Massenkoff, McCrory)·Mar 2026·Tier 2

We find no systematic increase in unemployment for highly exposed workers since late 2022, though we find suggestive evidence that hiring of younger workers has slowed in exposed occupations

Clara Shih (CEO, Salesforce AI) via X·Mar 2026·Tier 4

new grad hiring in large tech is down over 50% since 2019. For the first time in over decades, recent college grads have a higher unemployment rate than the national average. In addition, the 'underemployment rate' for recent graduates has risen to 42.5% (Q4 2025, New York Federal Reserve).

Challenger, Gray & Christmas·Mar 2026·Tier 2

So far in 2026, AI has been cited for 12,304 job cut announcements, or 8% of job cut plans. In 2025, companies referenced AI for 54,836 announced layoff plans, 5% of total cuts during the year.

Jason Furman (Harvard / former CEA Chair)·Mar 2026·Tier 3

Are we finally seeing AI in the productivity data? A big upward revision to earlier data and strong Q4 bring us 2.2% above CBO's pre-pandemic forecast. Annual rates: 1 year: 2.8%, 2 years: 2.5%, 6 years: 2.2%

Market Minute·Mar 2026·Tier 3

3% workforce reduction amidst record profits; investment banking revenue up 47%.

European Central Bank·Mar 2026·Tier 1

Companies with frequent AI use are about 4% more likely to take on additional staff. Two-thirds of the 3,500 firms that took part in the survey reported that their employees use AI.

Creator Economy (Peter Yang)·Mar 2026·Tier 4

In 2025, Ramp shipped 500+ features, reached $1B revenue, and did it all with 25 PMs.

Preston Cooper (Substack)·Mar 2026·Tier 4

According to the American Community Survey, 7.2 percent of early-career college graduates who majored in CS were unemployed in 2024—well above the 4.5 percent rate for all early-career graduates.

Citadel Securities (Frank Flight)·Mar 2026·Tier 2

In spite of the current displacement narrative – job postings for software engineers are rising rapidly, up 11% YoY. There is little evidence of AI disruption in labor market data as of today.

Ellucian·Mar 2026·Tier 2

The survey shows institutional adoption is accelerating, with 66% of respondents reporting their institution is currently leveraging AI, an increase from 49% year over year. Eighty-eight percent of respondents say they expect institutional AI use to increase over the next two years.

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Goldman Sachs Research·Mar 2026·Tier 2

While we still do not find a meaningful relationship between productivity and AI adoption at the economywide level, companies that quantified productivity impacts of AI on specific tasks reported a median productivity gain of around 30%.

CausalInf Substack (Scott Cunningham)·Mar 2026·Tier 4

Project APE — Autonomous Policy Evaluation... has produced 204 papers — with 60 added in a single week... These are fully automated papers, like a version 1.0, with no human iteration whatsoever.

Citadel Securities (Nohshad Shah)·Mar 2026·Tier 3

AI capex – roughly $650bn this year and potentially ~$2tn over three years – materially alters the equilibrium.

Apoorv Agrawal (@apoorv03)·Mar 2026·Tier 4

Today, AI apps have crossed 1 billion weekly active users and ChatGPT alone accounts for 900M of that.

Carnegie Mellon / Stanford (Wang, Neubig, Fried, Yang et al.)·Mar 2026·Tier 1

Across all benchmarks, examples collectively cover a limited 56.5% of the domain taxonomy but a substantially broader 85.4% of the skill taxonomy.

arxiv.org·Mar 2026·Tier 1

We first analyze 43 benchmarks and 72,342 tasks, measuring their alignment with human employment and capital allocation across all 1,016 real-world occupations in the U.S. labor market.

February 202631 sources

US Census Bureau·Feb 2026·Tier 1

In the last two weeks, did this business use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any of its business functions? Yes: 17.5%, No: 73.1%, Do not know: 9.4% (Cycle 202604, ref period Jan 26–Feb 8, 2026). First biweekly reading (Cycle 202524, Nov 2025): Yes: 17.3%.

Goldman Sachs Research (Pierfrancesco Mei)·Feb 2026·Tier 2

AI's labor market impact still small — only 5-10K/month drag on net job growth. Only 2½% of jobs exposed to automation today. Baseline forecast: 6-7% of workers displaced (range 3-14%), lowering annual hiring by 1M jobs and raising unemployment ~½pp. US creates 30M gross new jobs/year; does not anticipate job apocalypse. Impact so far largely confined to tech sector but expects it to grow materially.

METR (Becker, Rush, Cunningham, Rein, Mahamud)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

METR retracts original 19% slowdown finding, citing severe selection bias. Follow-up shows -18% speedup for original devs (CI: -38% to +9%), -4% for new recruits (CI: -15% to +9%). Authors state data gives 'unreliable signal' and are redesigning the study.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (J. Scott Davis)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

Employment in the computer systems design and related services sector has declined 5 percent. AI exposure associated with 0.28pp wage growth reduction for low-experience-premium jobs but 0.2pp increase for high-experience-premium occupations.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas·Feb 2026·Tier 1

AI's impact depends on whether it automates or augments. For zero-experience-premium occupations, increased AI exposure is associated with -0.28pp reduction in wage growth. Wages in AI-exposed jobs not uniformly declining.

CAQH (Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare)·Feb 2026·Tier 2

U.S. healthcare avoided $258B in admin costs. 50%+ of health plans and 25% of provider organizations use AI tools in admin workflows.

The Budget Lab at Yale (Gimbel, Kendall, Kulsakdinun)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

AI exposure metrics broadly agree with each other, but that they disagree with each other more on highly exposed occupations. The key point of disagreement between different AI exposure metrics is in the magnitude of exposure, not whether an occupation is exposed.

The Budget Lab at Yale (Gimbel, Kendall, Kulsakdinun)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

GPT-scored AI exposure for 342 BLS occupations on a 0-10 scale, validated against 6 academic metrics (Pearson 0.878 with Yale PCA, 0.885 with OpenAI). Employment-weighted industry exposure scores for 186 4-digit NAICS industries.

CIO.com·Feb 2026·Tier 3

37% of tech professionals say their role has been 'redefined or restructured due to gen AI in the past two years.' 80% of respondents save at least one hour per day using generative AI. AI literacy job postings growing 70%+ year over year.

Fortune·Feb 2026·Tier 2

OpenAI average stock-based compensation reached $1.5M per employee in 2025. Research scientist total compensation ranges from $763K to $1.44M. The company raised $6.6B in October 2024 at a $157B valuation.

Fiverr International Ltd. (SEC Filing / Press Release)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

Full-year 2025 revenue of $430.9M, up 10.1% YoY. Active buyers down 13.6% in 2025. Spend per buyer reached $342, rising 13% YoY. Writing, translation, and simple programming categories declining ~20% due to AI substitution. High-value projects over $1,000 grew 23%. 2026 revenue guidance: $380M-$420M, a decline of 3-12% YoY.

Gartner·Feb 2026·Tier 2

Only 20% of customer service leaders have actually reduced agent staffing due to AI, yet 80%+ expect to reduce headcount over the next 18 months. Nearly 80% plan to transition agents into new roles. Survey of 321 CS leaders (Sep-Oct 2025).

CEPR VoxEU (Aldasoro, Gambacorta, Pál, Revoltella, Weiss, Wolski)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

AI adoption causally increases labour productivity levels by 4% on average in the EU, with no evidence of reduced employment in the short run. Wage gains may accrue disproportionately to highly skilled workers.

Deutsche Bank Research (dbLumina)·Feb 2026·Tier 2

Customer service could see as much as 75% of interactions automated by 2026. AI-driven platforms could deliver primary investment advice to nearly 80% of retail investors by 2027. Over 85% of software developers now use AI coding assistants, delivering productivity gains of up to 60%.

NBER (Bloom, Barrero, Davis et al.)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

69% of firms across US, UK, Germany, and Australia currently use some AI technology (US: 78%). LLM text generation most common (41%). Expected to rise to 75% in 3 years. Larger, more productive, higher-paying firms more likely to adopt.

NBER (Bloom, Barrero, Davis et al.)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

Survey of ~6,000 executives across US, UK, Germany, Australia. 90%+ report no employment impact from AI over the past 3 years. Firms expect AI to reduce employment by 0.7% over the next 3 years (US: -1.2%). Employees, by contrast, expect +0.5% job creation.

NBER (Yotzov, Barrero, Bloom, Bunn, Davis et al.)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

Looking ahead three years, executives predict a 1.4 percent productivity boost and 0.8 percent output increase alongside a 0.7 percent employment reduction—while employees forecast a 0.5 percent employment increase.

FactSet·Feb 2026·Tier 1

68% (331 out of 485) of S&P 500 earnings calls in Q4 2025 cited AI — a new 10-year high. Financials and IT had highest counts (67 each). IT (94%), Financials (91%), Communication Services (89%) had highest sector percentages.

Upwork (SEC Filing / Press Release)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

Revenue grew 2% year over year to $787.8 million for full year 2025. GSV per active client was $5,129 in Q4 2025, an increase of 7% year over year. AI-related skills grew by 109% year over year. Active clients were 785,000 as of December 31, 2025.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics·Feb 2026·Tier 1

Job openings fell to their lowest level since December 2017. Professional & business services openings down 21.8% (-284,000). Financial activities openings down 25.1% (-86,000). Healthcare openings down 10.8% (-152,000) since October.

Morgan Stanley Research (AlphaWise)·Feb 2026·Tier 2

Survey respondents said that AI adoption had led to elimination of 11% of jobs and an additional 12% were left unfilled. This is partially offset by 18% new hires, resulting in a 4% net job loss globally.

Business Times Online·Feb 2026·Tier 3

Cutting ~20,000 jobs (8% of workforce) by 2026 in restructuring tied to automation; broader plans for 60,000 total reductions including Banamex IPO.

International Center for Law & Economics·Feb 2026·Tier 2

35.9% of US workers used generative AI by December 2025; adoption is accelerating but remains unevenly distributed across industries and skill levels.

International Center for Law & Economics·Feb 2026·Tier 2

No measurable change in job openings or aggregate employment in AI-exposed occupations; adjustment happening through task reallocation, not broad displacement.

International Center for Law & Economics·Feb 2026·Tier 2

Pressure concentrated in entry-level segments of highly exposed occupations; adjustment happening at the margin through task reallocation.

International Center for Law & Economics·Feb 2026·Tier 2

Small but statistically significant positive wage effects found across AI-exposed occupations; 35.9% of US workers used generative AI by December 2025.

NBER (Brynjolfsson, Li, Miranda, Seamans, Wang)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage increases robot adoption by roughly 8 percent relative to the mean

NBER (Cruces, Fernández Meijide, Galiani, Gálvez, Lombardi)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

In a randomized experiment with 1,174 adults ages 25-45, AI access closed approximately three-quarters of the education-based productivity gap: higher-education participants outperform lower-education participants by 0.548 standard deviations without AI; with AI, this gap falls to 0.139 standard deviations.

Lightcast·Feb 2026·Tier 2

The United States has seen 50% growth in AI-related postings over the past year, with AI now appearing in 2.5% of all job postings.

NBER (Cruces, Fernández Meijide, Galiani, Gálvez, Lombardi)·Feb 2026·Tier 1

Without AI, higher-education participants outperformed lower-education participants by 0.548 standard deviations. With AI access, this gap fell to 0.139 standard deviations—closing about 75 percent of the baseline productivity difference.

NBER·Feb 2026·Tier 1

Synthesizes firm-level survey data from the US, UK, Germany, and Australia measuring AI's realized and expected impacts on sales per employee and employment. Data collected Feb-Apr 2025 and Nov 2025-Jan 2026.

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Anthropic (Shen, Tamkin)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities. The AI group averaged 50% on the quiz, compared to 67% in the hand-coding group.

OECD·Jan 2026·Tier 1

36.8% of individuals across OECD used generative AI in 2025. 20.2% of firms used AI in 2025 (up from 8.7% in 2023). 41.1% of employed individuals used generative AI. 52.0% of large firms vs 17.4% small.

Brookings Metro / GovAI (Manning, Muro, Aguirre)·Jan 2026·Tier 2

6.1 million U.S. workers face both high AI exposure and low adaptive capacity. Medical secretaries and administrative assistants (831,000 workers) stand out as one of the largest occupations in this high-risk category. About 86% of these workers are women.

HealthTech Magazine (CDW)·Jan 2026·Tier 2

Administration comprises 25% of all healthcare costs, making it a key target for automation. Organizations are using AI for documentation, coding, scheduling. Ambient documentation frees up to four hours of clinician time.

Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative / Accenture·Jan 2026·Tier 2

AI is redistributing economic value away from routine cognitive tasks toward judgment, coordination, and specialized knowledge.

ESB / Rabobank (Groenewegen, van Limbergen, Vrieselaar)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

In het derde kwartaal van 2025 werkten ruim dertien procent minder jongeren in de meest vatbare beroepsgroepen dan in het vierde kwartaal van 2022, terwijl de werkgelegenheid in andere beroepsgroepen juist drie procent steeg.

NBER (Manning, Aguirre)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

6.1 million workers in AI-exposed roles lack adaptive capacity; 86% are women. Vulnerability concentrated in college towns and state capitals in Mountain West and Midwest.

Brookings Institution (Manning, Aguirre, Muro, Methkupally)·Jan 2026·Tier 2

Of the 37.1 million workers in the top quartile of AI exposure, 26.5 million are in occupations that also have above-median adaptive capacity. 6.1 million workers (4.2%) face high exposure + low adaptive capacity; 86% are women.

NBER (Eisfeldt, Schubert, Zhang)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

A one-standard-deviation increase in Generative AI exposure is associated with an 8% decline in job postings and a 0.6% decline in the hourly wage rate.

arxiv.org·Jan 2026·Tier 1

AI skills significantly increase interview invitation probabilities by approximately 8 to 15 percentage points, compared with candidates without such skills

Anthropic·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Computer/mathematical tasks account for ~33% of all Claude.ai conversations and ~50% of API traffic, indicating concentrated AI impact on tech-adjacent roles.

Anthropic·Jan 2026·Tier 1

49% of jobs now use AI for at least 25% of their tasks (up from 36% in early 2025); widespread adoption could boost US labor productivity by 1.0-1.8 percentage points annually.

Anthropic·Jan 2026·Tier 1

49% of jobs now use AI for at least 25% of their tasks (up from 36% in early 2025); augmentation (52%) has overtaken automation (45%) as primary use pattern.

Cognizant·Jan 2026·Tier 2

Education task exposure jumped from 11% to 49% — a 4.5x increase driven by multimodal AI, advanced reasoning, and agentic systems. Based on reassessment of 18,000 tasks across 1,000 O*NET occupations.

arXiv (Frank et al.)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Unemployment risk in AI-exposed occupations rose beginning early 2022; graduates with AI-exposed curricula have higher first-job pay and shorter job searches post-ChatGPT.

arXiv (Frank et al.)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Unemployment risk in AI-exposed occupations rose beginning early 2022; graduates with AI-exposed curricula have higher first-job pay and shorter job searches post-ChatGPT.

Harvard Business Review·Jan 2026·Tier 1

95% of generative AI projects have failed to deliver measurable returns (citing MIT). PwC: 56% of CEOs said AI failed to boost revenue or lower costs. Layoffs are anticipatory, not performance-driven.

IMF (Jaumotte et al.)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Around 40% of global employment is exposed to AI; in advanced economies 60%. Demand for new skills is rising with 10% of jobs in advanced economies requiring at least one new skill.

IMF (Jaumotte et al.)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Emerging evidence that generative AI adoption is reducing entry-level hiring, especially where tasks are automatable rather than complementary to humans.

IMF Staff Discussion Note·Jan 2026·Tier 2

Employment 3.6% lower in AI-vulnerable occupations in regions with high AI-skill demand after 5 years; geographic divergence driven by skill concentration.

IMF Staff Discussion Note·Jan 2026·Tier 2

Job postings with 4+ new skills pay up to 15% more (UK) and 8.5% more (US); middle-skill roles being squeezed while high-skill workers gain.

Zendesk·Jan 2026·Tier 3

95% of customer interactions projected to be AI-powered by 2028. Current AI resolution rates at leading companies exceed 55% without human escalation.

Stanford GSB / NBER (Jones, Tonetti)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

By 2040, output is only 4% higher than it would have been without the growth acceleration, and by 2060 the gain is still only 19%. A key reason for the slow acceleration is the prominence of 'weak links' (an elasticity of substitution among tasks less than one).

The Lancet (Gommers, Hernström, Josefsson et al.)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

In the AI group, screen readings fell from 109,692 to 61,248—a 44 percent workload reduction—while screen-detected cancers rose from 262 to 338, a 29 percent increase in detection.

NBER (Reimers, Waldfogel)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

New book releases tripled over this period, but average quality declined... the authors estimate a potential steady-state consumer surplus gain of 25–50 percent from market expansion.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Retail trade projected to decline 1.2% as automation and e-commerce reduce sales occupations. Mining/extraction declining 1.6% driven by robotics and drones. Total employment projected to grow 3.1% (2024-34), much slower than prior decade.

Healthcare Dive / Trinity Health·Jan 2026·Tier 2

Trinity Health is laying off 10.5% of its revenue cycle management staff across 15 states and 92 hospitals. Non-patient-facing revenue cycle functions will be transitioned to an external partner.

Deloitte AI Institute·Jan 2026·Tier 2

Nearly 3 in 4 (74%) companies plan to deploy agentic AI within two years. 34% are already starting to use AI to deeply transform their businesses. 84% of companies have not redesigned jobs around AI capabilities.

Deloitte·Jan 2026·Tier 2

71% of organizations regularly use generative AI in at least one business function (up from 65% in early 2024). 92% plan to invest in generative AI over next three years. 66% report productivity gains.

IMF (Jaumotte et al.)·Jan 2026·Tier 2

The high demand for new IT skills may not necessarily translate into a one-for-one rise in demand for IT and AI specialists, especially as many IT tasks may progressively be automated by AI.

Economic Innovation Group (Iscenko & Curto Millet)·Jan 2026·Tier 2

There is no evidence that job postings for junior roles within occupations most exposed to AI have declined more than postings for senior positions. Postings for both levels of seniority have been falling roughly in parallel since their peak in Spring 2022, with the decline in junior positions stabilizing faster.

Workday / Hanover Research·Jan 2026·Tier 2

Nearly 40% of AI time savings are lost to rework, including correcting errors, rewriting content, and verifying outputs from one-size-fits-all AI tools. Only 14% of employees consistently get clear, positive net outcomes from AI.

Bank of America (Q4 2025 earnings call)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

CEO Brian Moynihan: 'We have 18,000 people on the company's payroll who code, and we've — using the AI techniques, we've taken 30% out of the coding part of the stream of introducing a new product or service or change that saved us about 2,000 people.'

EDUCAUSE (with AIR, NACUBO, CUPA-HR)·Jan 2026·Tier 2

94% of higher education workers use AI tools for work, but only 54% are aware of institutional AI policies. 67% identified six or more urgent AI-related risks, including job loss. Survey of 1,960 staff and faculty across 1,800+ institutions.

Jobs for the Future (JFF)·Jan 2026·Tier 2

19% of respondents said they are actively pursuing different careers (7%) or considering changing plans in the near future (12%) due to AI-driven transformation.

Bureau of Labor Statistics·Jan 2026·Tier 1

BLS projects a further 6% decline in programmer roles through 2034. Computer programmer employment (routine coding roles) fell ~27.5% in roughly two years following ChatGPT's release — one of the largest two-year drops in any occupation tracked by BLS. Software developer employment remained flat.

Challenger, Gray & Christmas·Jan 2026·Tier 3

Employers cited AI as a direct cause for 55,000 job cuts in 2025, concentrated in customer service, data entry, and back-office operations.

Ghosts of Electricity (Alex Imas, Substack)·Jan 2026·Tier 4

automation can depress demand and push AI-driven growth toward the lower end of current forecasts. [...] the conditions needed for growth to actually turn negative are likely too unrealistic to hold in practice

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Employment share of young workers (20-24) in most AI-exposed occupations fell from 16.4% to 15.5%; decline driven by fewer people transitioning into employment, not layoffs.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas·Jan 2026·Tier 1

If fully translated to unemployment, AI-driven employment declines among young workers would explain only 0.1 percentage point rise in aggregate unemployment.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Employment share of young workers (20-24) in most AI-exposed occupations fell from 16.4% to 15.5% between November 2022 and September 2025.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Employment share for AI-exposed occupations fell from 16.4% (Nov 2022) to 15.5% (Sep 2025). Workers age 22-25 in most AI-exposed occupations experienced 13% employment decline since 2022, driven by fewer workforce entrants rather than layoffs.

Index.dev·Jan 2026·Tier 2

AI/ML engineers median total compensation reached $185K in 2025, with top-tier researchers commanding $500K-$1M+. The premium over general software roles widened to 35%.

Stanford / World Bank (Hartley, Jolevski, Melo, Moore)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

35.9% of US workers used generative AI by December 2025; small positive wage effects, no significant decline in job openings.

Chen & Stratton (Jellyfish data)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

AI adoption led to moderate productivity increases — an 8.5 percent increase in coding activity and 8.7 percent faster task completion — with no measurable quality declines. These productivity gains did not translate into increased output, changes in task composition, or effects on employment.

NBER (Delfino, Garnero, Inferrera, Leonardi, Sadun)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Perceived 'identity fit' — whether a new skill feels compatible with a person's sense of self — dominated re-skilling decisions, often outweighing beliefs about wages or employer demand.

Academic paper (Stevens)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Freelance marketplace spend collapsed from 0.66% to 0.14% of GDP after ChatGPT launch.

Academic paper (Kim, Jin, Lee)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Pixiv illustrator uploads down 10.1% post-AI; commercial creators saw -14.3% decline.

BIS (Aldasoro et al.)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

EU firms see +4% productivity from AI adoption; no employment decline detected.

SSRN (Maasoum, Lichtinger)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

GenAI modestly changes net wage inequality; entry barriers shift for new workers.

Oxford (Stephany, Duszynski)·Jan 2026·Tier 1

Gender gap in AI adoption: women adopt less; 5.3 percentage point gap in UK data.

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Multiple financial reporting (via Fortune)·Dec 2025·Tier 1

Combined headcount fell to 1.09 million — lowest since 2021, down ~10,600 from prior year, largest annual reduction since 2016.

U.S. Census Bureau·Dec 2025·Tier 1

AI adoption for production rose from 4.6% (early 2024) to 10% (Sep 2025). Broader measure (any business function): 17.3% (Nov 2025). 78.4% annualized growth rate. 80.9% of non-adopters cite inapplicability.

NBER / arXiv (Autor, Kausik)·Dec 2025·Tier 1

falling labor share accounted for 16% of U.S. real wage growth between 1954 and 2019

Deloitte Insights·Dec 2025·Tier 2

A Deloitte survey reveals how AI and human collaboration can help close talent gaps, speed upskilling, and transfer knowledge as demographic changes reshape the workforce.

Yale / arXiv (Merali)·Dec 2025·Tier 1

Each year of AI model progress reduced task time by 8%. Access to any AI model increased Earnings Per Minute by 81.3%. Continued scaling could boost US productivity by ~20% over the next decade.

CNBC / Challenger, Gray & Christmas·Dec 2025·Tier 2

Challenger, Gray & Christmas reports AI has been cited as the reason for 54,694 planned layoffs in 2025. Overall job cuts topped 1 million in 2025.

Fortune (citing Yale Budget Lab)·Dec 2025·Tier 3

No economy-wide employment disruption detected since ChatGPT's release, but this masks occupation-specific impacts for early-career cognitive workers.

Fortune·Dec 2025·Tier 3

AI was the most-cited topic in S&P 500 earnings calls in 2025. Companies mentioning AI in workforce context outperformed peers by 8.2 percentage points on average.

Gallup·Dec 2025·Tier 2

46% of US workers reported using AI tools at work in Q4 2025, up from 33% in Q1 2025. Adoption driven by white-collar professional and technical roles.

NBER·Dec 2025·Tier 1

AI chatbots had no statistically significant impact on hours worked or wages earned for lawyers. Law graduate employment in 2024 reached 93.4% — the highest rate on record.

MIT Technology Review·Dec 2025·Tier 1

Despite early signs that AI is beginning to affect entry-level workers, labor statistics have yet to show lawyers being displaced. Law graduate employment in 2024 reached 93.4% — the highest rate on record.

Revelio Labs·Dec 2025·Tier 2

Since January 2023, salaries at the top quartile of the wage distribution have grown by more than 30%. Over the same period, salaries at the bottom quartile have risen by only around 10%.

Challenger, Gray & Christmas·Dec 2025·Tier 2

54,694 job cuts cited AI as a reason in 2025, concentrated in tech, finance, and customer service sectors.

Stanford HAI·Dec 2025·Tier 2

78% of organizations report using AI in at least one business function. Enterprise AI spending grew 45% YoY globally.

World Economic Forum·Dec 2025·Tier 2

Education support roles face moderate displacement risk while core teaching remains protected. Administrative and content creation roles most affected by AI adoption.

World Economic Forum·Dec 2025·Tier 2

40% of employers globally expect to reduce headcount as AI automates tasks. Net displacement estimates range from 5-14% of current roles by 2030.

Morgan Stanley (via TechCrunch / Financial Times)·Dec 2025·Tier 2

200,000+ European banking jobs could vanish by 2030 — roughly 10% of workforce at 35 major European lenders (2.12M staff). Efficiency gains of 30% quoted by banks.

FactSet·Dec 2025·Tier 1

61% of S&P 500 companies cited AI in Q4 2025 earnings calls, maintaining near-record levels from Q3.

FactSet·Dec 2025·Tier 1

306 S&P 500 earnings calls cited AI in Q3 2025 (then-record), significantly above the 5-year average of 136 and 10-year average of 86. IT (95%) and Communication Services (95%) had highest sector percentages.

November 202526 sources

MIT / Oak Ridge National Laboratory·Nov 2025·Tier 1

AI can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. workforce, worth $1.2 trillion in wages. Exposure is distributed across all 50 states, not confined to coastal tech hubs. South Dakota, NC, Utah show higher values than California.

McKinsey Global Institute·Nov 2025·Tier 2

57% of US work hours are technically automatable. Physical tasks comprise 50%+ of hours for 40% of the US workforce. Robot unit costs ($150-500K) must fall to $20-50K for mass physical automation adoption. At least 14% of employees globally may need career changes by 2030.

McKinsey Global Institute (Yee, Madgavkar, Smit et al.)·Nov 2025·Tier 2

Currently demonstrated technologies could automate activities accounting for about 57 percent of US work hours today. AI agents could perform tasks occupying 44 percent of US work hours, while robots could handle another 13 percent. Roles with the highest potential for automation make up about 40 percent of total jobs.

Gartner·Nov 2025·Tier 3

By 2026, 20% of organizations will use AI to flatten their organizational structure, eliminating more than half of current middle management positions in those organizations.

Microsoft·Nov 2025·Tier 2

75% of knowledge workers now use AI tools. Adoption in enterprises with 500+ employees reached 60%, up from 40% a year prior.

University of Chicago Booth (Marchesi, Tang)·Nov 2025·Tier 1

Industries more compatible with AI experienced an increase of over 10% in firm formation following ChatGPT's release. New firms are more likely to survive, grow faster, and attract more educated workers.

Bureau of Labor Statistics·Nov 2025·Tier 2

Median annual wage for all occupations: $49,500. AI-exposed administrative and clerical wages grew 1.1% vs. 3.8% for non-AI-exposed occupations.

FactSet·Nov 2025·Tier 1

Record 306 S&P 500 companies (61%) cited AI in Q3 2025 earnings calls — a new 10-year high, surpassing the prior record of 292. 95% of IT and Communications sectors mentioned AI. AI-citing companies outperformed 13.9% vs. 5.7%.

Stanford Digital Economy Lab (Brynjolfsson, Chandar, Chen)·Nov 2025·Tier 1

Early-career workers (ages 22-25) in AI-exposed occupations experienced 16% relative employment declines, controlling for firm-level shocks. By September 2025, employment for software developers aged 22-25 declined nearly 20% compared to its peak in late 2022.

Stanford Digital Economy Lab (Brynjolfsson, Chandar, Chen)·Nov 2025·Tier 1

We find little difference in annual salary trends by age or exposure quintile, suggesting possible wage stickiness. Labor market adjustments are visible in employment more than in compensation.

Stanford Digital Economy Lab (Brynjolfsson, Chandar, Chen)·Nov 2025·Tier 1

Workers aged 22 to 25 have experienced a 6% decline in employment from late 2022 to September 2025 in the most AI-exposed occupations, compared to a 6-9% increase for older workers.

Stanford Digital Economy Lab (Brynjolfsson, Chandar, Chen)·Nov 2025·Tier 1

Overall employment continues to grow robustly, but employment growth for young workers has been stagnant since late 2022. Declining employment in AI-exposed jobs drives stagnant overall employment growth for 22- to 25-year-olds.

UnitedHealth Group Newsroom·Nov 2025·Tier 2

UnitedHealth deployed over 1,000 AI applications across insurance, care delivery, and pharmacy. AI chatbots handled over 65 million customer calls in 2024. Invested $1.5B in AI targeting ~$1B in annual operating cost savings.

Envato·Nov 2025·Tier 2

Nearly half of all respondents (49%) use AI daily for client work. 69% don't feel fully prepared for an AI-driven creative industry. 1 in 3 expect design roles to transform this year. Survey of 1,780 global creatives.

SSRN (Suproteem K. Sarkar, University of Chicago)·Nov 2025·Tier 1

Software output increased by 39% after the AI agent became the platform's default code generation mode. Quality did not deteriorate. Senior developers benefit most from agents; junior developers benefit most from autocomplete.

Anthropic (Tamkin, McCrory)·Nov 2025·Tier 2

Claude speeds up individual tasks by about 80%. Extrapolating suggests 1.8% annual US productivity growth over the next decade.

McKinsey & Company·Nov 2025·Tier 2

32% of companies expect AI to reduce workforce by 3%+ within next year. Median 17% of respondents report workforce declines within functions from AI use. 88% of organizations now use AI in at least one business function.

Bloomberry/Revealera (Henley Wing Chiu)·Nov 2025·Tier 2

Computer graphic artist postings down 33% in 2025, photographers and writers down 28%, journalists down 22%, against an 8% overall market decline. Analysis of 180M global job postings from company websites using 650 normalized job titles.

Forecasting Research Institute·Nov 2025·Tier 2

the median expert predicted 2% growth in white-collar jobs between January 2025 and December 2030, compared to 6.8% pre-existing trend; one in four experts foreseeing net job losses

Harvard / St. Louis Fed RPS·Nov 2025·Tier 2

Quarterly dashboard tracking generative AI adoption among U.S. working-age adults. Feb & May 2025 values estimated from tracker chart; all other values from published working paper.

NBER (Humlum, Vestergaard)·Nov 2025·Tier 1

Study of 11 occupations in Denmark: essentially zero effects on earnings and hours worked; confidence intervals rule out effects larger than 2%. AI adoption linked to ~4% occupational switching.

McKinsey & Company·Nov 2025·Tier 2

88% of organizations use AI in ≥1 function (up from 78%). Gen AI adoption at 71%. But only 7% fully scaled, and just 6% report EBIT impact ≥5%. 62% experimenting with AI agents.

NBER·Nov 2025·Tier 1

Survey of 2,500 C-suite executives finds 90% report no significant net employment impact from AI adoption as of Q3 2025, though task reallocation is widespread.

World Bank (Liu, Wang, Yu)·Nov 2025·Tier 1

Job postings for high-AI-substitution occupations fell 12% relative to low-substitution roles post-ChatGPT; effect grew from 6% in year one to 18% by year three. Based on 285 million Lightcast job postings.

ABN Amro (via Financial Times)·Nov 2025·Tier 3

Plans to reduce approximately 20% of full-time workforce by 2028, citing AI capabilities in operations and compliance.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis·Nov 2025·Tier 1

23% of employed workers used generative AI at work weekly as of late 2024. Share of work hours with GenAI increased from 4.1% (Nov 2024) to 5.7% (Aug 2025). GenAI may have increased aggregate labor productivity by up to 1.3%.

October 202527 sources

STAT News·Oct 2025·Tier 3

Health insurance companies deploying AI to combat rising costs driven by hospital use of AI for billing and coding.

Center for AI Safety / Scale AI (Mazeika et al.)·Oct 2025·Tier 1

AI agents perform near the floor on RLI, with the highest-performing agent achieving an automation rate of 2.5%. 240 real freelance projects across game dev, design, architecture, data analysis, and animation.

Goldman Sachs (via Fortune)·Oct 2025·Tier 2

Financial institutions could see 14% headcount reduction over next 3 years (worst of any category surveyed); only 11% of clients actively cutting employees due to AI currently.

The Wall Street Journal·Oct 2025·Tier 3

Amazon plans to cut 14K corporate jobs (10% of white-collar workforce). UPS reduced management by 14K. Target cut 1,800 corporate roles. Nearly 2M Americans unemployed 27+ weeks.

Brookings Institution·Oct 2025·Tier 2

Whether AI destroys jobs or transforms them, young people still need fundamental supports: skill-building, career navigation, and mentorship.

Gartner·Oct 2025·Tier 3

Less than 1% of announced layoffs in the first half of 2025 are attributable to productivity gains from AI; most (79%) have been unrelated to AI.

Gartner·Oct 2025·Tier 2

Gartner projects 20-30% of customer service agents will be replaced by generative AI by end of 2026. AI adoption in CS jumped from 46% to 61% in one year.

PwC·Oct 2025·Tier 1

Workers with AI skills now command a 56% wage premium over non-AI peers, up from 25% just one year prior. AI roles median compensation reaches $157K.

Yale Budget Lab·Oct 2025·Tier 1

Analysis finds no significant macro-level job displacement from AI as of late 2025, though structural shifts are emerging in specific sectors.

CNBC·Oct 2025·Tier 3

Operations and support staff to fall by at least 10% over next five years despite growing business volumes.

PwC·Oct 2025·Tier 1

AI-skilled workers command a 56% wage premium, up from 25% in prior year. AI roles median compensation at $157K vs. $49,500 all-occupation median.

CESifo / Columbia (Fang et al.)·Oct 2025·Tier 1

Large-scale field experiments find treatment effects 0-16.3% on sales, mapping directly into TFP improvements.

CNBC / Indeed·Oct 2025·Tier 2

Indeed analysis finds 26% of jobs face radical transformation from AI. Paralegals face 80% automation risk by 2026. Legal research and contract review most affected.

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (Klump, Schneider, Jurkat)·Oct 2025·Tier 1

The overall effect of industrial robots on wages is close to zero and insignificant. 53 papers, 2,143 estimations.

Atlassian·Oct 2025·Tier 2

Survey of 180 Fortune 100 executives and 12,000 knowledge workers. 96% of organizations not seeing dramatic improvements in efficiency, innovation, or work quality from AI. Costing Fortune 500 ~$98B/year in lost returns. Workers report feeling 33% more productive individually, but organizational metrics flat.

St. Louis Fed (Bick, Blandin & Deming)·Oct 2025·Tier 1

Nationally representative survey of 25,000+ working-age adults finds generative AI adoption reached 55.9% overall and 40.7% at work by November 2025, outpacing PC and internet adoption at comparable points post-launch.

Bank of America·Oct 2025·Tier 1

BofA's Erica AI assistant surpassed 2 billion client interactions with a 98% resolution rate. Now handles 56% of all customer inquiries without human escalation.

Challenger, Gray & Christmas·Oct 2025·Tier 2

78,000 tech sector job losses attributed to AI in the first half of 2025, with QA testing, junior development, and IT support roles most affected.

arXiv (Fang, Yuan, Zheng, Donati, Sarvary)·Oct 2025·Tier 1

AI chatbots for customer service increased sales by 16%; AI-generated product descriptions increased sales by 2.05% in field experiments.

Yale Budget Lab (Gimbel, Kinder, Kendall, Lee)·Oct 2025·Tier 1

No economy-wide employment disruption tied to AI since ChatGPT's debut. Measures of AI exposure show no clear relationship with changes in employment or unemployment.

Brookings (Kinder)·Oct 2025·Tier 1

Despite fears of imminent AI jobs apocalypse, the overall labor market shows more continuity than disruption since ChatGPT's launch.

SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management)·Oct 2025·Tier 2

At least 50% of tasks are automated in only 7.3% of education and library occupations — the lowest of any occupational group. Survey of 20,262 U.S. workers fielded March-April 2025.

International Federation of Robotics·Oct 2025·Tier 2

542,000 industrial robots installed in 2024 — more than double the number 10 years ago. 4,664,000 robots operational worldwide. US installations at 34,200 units. Global market value $16.5 billion.

SHRM·Oct 2025·Tier 2

15% of US jobs — about 23 million total — are at high risk of displacement due to automation, concentrated in manufacturing, transportation, and food preparation.

Manufacturing Dive / BLS data·Oct 2025·Tier 1

US manufacturing lost 78,000 jobs over the past year with 12,000 cuts in August alone. Manufacturing employment at lowest level since onset of COVID-19 pandemic.

MIT Sloan Management Review / BCG·Oct 2025·Tier 2

Among organizations with extensive agentic AI adoption, 45% expect reductions in middle management layers.

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia·Oct 2025·Tier 1

About half of respondent firms in the Philadelphia Fed's Third District are using generative AI. Survey conducted late October 2025.

September 202523 sources

BPEA (Liu, Papanikolaou, Schmidt, Seegmiller)·Sep 2025·Tier 1

In sharp contrast to the past two centuries, AI will shift relative demand toward occupations with lower education, lower wages, and a greater share of male workers.

SBA Office of Advocacy·Sep 2025·Tier 1

39% of US adults used AI by August 2024. Small-firm adoption pace continues rising. Firms with 250+ employees at 11% usage; smallest firms (1-4 employees) at 7%.

Harvard Business Review (Stanford / BetterUp Labs)·Sep 2025·Tier 2

Survey of 1,150 US workers: 40% received AI-generated 'workslop' in the past month; each instance cost ~2 hours to deal with. 18% of AI users admitted sending low-quality AI output. Estimated cost: $186/worker/month or ~$9M/year for a 10,000-person org.

Ramp·Sep 2025·Tier 1

Freelance marketplace spend fell from 0.66% to 0.14% of total business spend (Q4 2021 to Q3 2025); substitution ratio: $1 reduced freelance spend → $0.03 in AI spend.

Anthropic·Sep 2025·Tier 1

Census Bureau rigorous measure finds 9.7% of firms actively using AI, while broader surveys report 78%. Adoption gap driven by definitional differences in what counts as AI use.

Anthropic·Sep 2025·Tier 1

Only ~25% of Information sector businesses using AI; ~2.5% in Accommodation/Food — adoption patterns driven more by workforce composition than income.

arXiv (ILO-affiliated researchers)·Sep 2025·Tier 1

Productivity gains 20-60% in controlled RCTs, 15-30% in field experiments; AI exposure measures converge toward high-wage jobs being most exposed.

Egon Zehnder·Sep 2025·Tier 1

18% of CFOs have already eliminated roles due to AI. Of those, 88% of cuts were in accounting, 38% in FP&A, 33% in treasury. Finance teams are the earliest white-collar AI displacement.

ABC4 News / Becker's Hospital Review·Sep 2025·Tier 1

Revere Health eliminated 177 positions (billing, coding, accounts receivable) after partnering with IKS Health for AI-driven claims processing and automated billing. Largest documented healthcare admin AI layoff.

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya·Sep 2025·Tier 1

Peer-reviewed study finds AI can now automate substantial portions of creative work. Freelance writing gigs dropped 30% post-ChatGPT launch.

NBER (Chatterji, Cunningham, Deming, Hitzig, Ong, Shan, Wadman)·Sep 2025·Tier 1

By July 2025, 18 billion messages were being sent each week by 700 million users. 81% of work-related messages involve obtaining information or making decisions, not task automation.

Penn Wharton Budget Model (Arnon, Smetters)·Sep 2025·Tier 1

In about 40% of employment in exposed occupations, at least 50% of tasks will be replaceable. Average labor-cost savings ~25% from current tools, potentially 40% as systems improve.

Penn Wharton Budget Model (Arnon, Smetters)·Sep 2025·Tier 1

Roughly 10% of US work affected in the short run; AI will increase productivity and GDP by 1.5% by 2035. Jobs that AI can completely replace saw 0.75% employment fall 2021-2024.

Fortune (Benioff interview on The Logan Bartlett Show)·Sep 2025·Tier 1

50% are with agents, 50% are with humans. From 9,000 heads to about 5,000 because I need less heads. Support costs reduced by 17%.

Stanford / ADP Research·Sep 2025·Tier 1

In jobs with high AI exposure, employment for 22- to 25-year-olds fell 6% between late 2022 and July 2025. Software developers saw a 20% early-career decline. Employment among workers 30 and older grew 6-13%.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (The Economics Daily)·Sep 2025·Tier 1

Software developer employment projected to grow 17.9% (2023-2033). Despite AI exposure, this occupation is unlikely to experience employment decline because robust software needs are expected to support continued demand.

CompTIA·Sep 2025·Tier 2

IT unemployment rate rose from 3.9% to 5.7% between late 2024 and mid-2025, the highest level since 2021, driven by AI-related restructuring.

Experian Health·Sep 2025·Tier 2

67% of providers believe AI can improve claims processing, but only 14% have implemented AI tools. Among adopters, 69% report reduced denials. Survey of 250 providers.

SSRN (Hosseini Maasoum, Lichtinger)·Sep 2025·Tier 1

Analysis of 62M U.S. resumes: junior employment declined sharply at AI-adopting firms while senior employment was largely unchanged — described as 'seniority-biased technological change.'

Annual Review of Economics / NBER (Korinek, Trammell)·Sep 2025·Tier 1

Sufficiently advanced AI could dramatically raise growth rates and lower labor share, breaking Kaldor Facts. Wages may rise or fall depending on returns to scale and direction of technical change.

Anthropic·Sep 2025·Tier 2

37% of software development tasks show AI involvement. Writing code is 18% of actual AI usage in software development; most use is for understanding, debugging, and reviewing code.

NBER (Brynjolfsson, Hitzig)·Sep 2025·Tier 1

The framework yields several predictions: larger average firm size, greater industry concentration, and reduced local managerial autonomy. Transformative AI sharply expands what counts as codifiable local knowledge. In the absence of active countermeasures, transformative AI may lead to significantly more centralization of decision-making.

Bloomberg Intelligence·Sep 2025·Tier 2

Global banks expected to shed 200,000 roles over 3-5 years (~3% headcount drop). Citigroup: 54% of banking jobs have high automation potential. AI could lift bank pre-tax profits 12-17% by 2027.

August 202511 sources

Washington Center for Equitable Growth (Dubal, Negron)·Aug 2025·Tier 2

Audit of 500 AI vendors finds surveillance pay spreading across healthcare, customer service, and logistics.

NBER (Bick, Blandin, Deming)·Aug 2025·Tier 1

37.4% of US workers used AI on the job in the past week. Adoption highest among college-educated (52%) and workers earning $100K+ (58%). Survey of 25,000 workers.

Fortune·Aug 2025·Tier 2

Companies hiring AI talent face a 30% salary premium as demand far outstrips supply, with experts warning that the cost of delayed AI hiring will only increase over time.

Fortune (reporting Goldman Sachs research)·Aug 2025·Tier 2

Unemployment rate for 20- to 30-year-olds in tech rose nearly 3% since early 2024. Entry-level job postings in the US diminished about 35% since January 2023. Goldman Sachs predicts AI will displace about 6-7% of the total workforce.

Bain & Company / KLAS Research·Aug 2025·Tier 2

70% of providers and 80% of payers now have an AI strategy in place or in development. RCM is the top AI use case, with ambient documentation at ~20% full rollout and ~40% in pilot. Nearly half of provider executives said revenue cycle management was a top three IT investment priority. Survey of 228 US healthcare provider and payer executives.

Stanford Digital Economy Lab·Aug 2025·Tier 1

~11% decline for early-career customer service workers; declines concentrated in roles where AI automates rather than augments tasks.

Goldman Sachs Research·Aug 2025·Tier 2

Young tech workers (20-30) unemployment risen ~3pp since start of 2025; tech employment share fallen below pre-pandemic trend.

Goldman Sachs·Aug 2025·Tier 2

Physically demanding or outdoor work unlikely to be affected by current AI. Projects 50,000-100,000 humanoid robot shipments in 2026. Unit economics expected to reach $15,000-$20,000 per robot.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis·Aug 2025·Tier 1

Occupations with higher AI exposure experienced larger unemployment rate increases between 2022 and 2025 (r=0.47). Computer/math occupations (exposure ~80%) saw steepest rises. GenAI-intensive occupations: r=0.57.

July 202516 sources

Indeed Hiring Lab·Jul 2025·Tier 2

Overall tech postings 36% below pre-pandemic baseline. Software engineer postings down 49%. Of 149 tech titles, only 19% exceeded pre-pandemic levels.

Burning Glass Institute·Jul 2025·Tier 2

52% of the Class of 2023 was underemployed a year after graduating. Entry-level postings in high-AI-exposure occupations fell from 2022 to 2025, while postings requiring 6+ years of experience held steady or rose.

Fortune·Jul 2025·Tier 2

Job postings for non-tech roles that require AI skills offer 28% higher salaries — an average of nearly $18,000 more per year. The divide between AI-skilled and non-AI-skilled workers is widening.

Lightcast·Jul 2025·Tier 2

Analysis of 1.3B job postings finds AI skills command 28% salary premium (~$18K/year); 43% for workers with 2+ AI skills. 51% of AI-skill postings now outside IT/CS with 800% growth in non-tech gen AI roles since 2022.

Bureau of Labor Statistics·Jul 2025·Tier 1

Teacher aide and educational support employment projected to decline 3%. Post-secondary teacher demand flat. Private tutoring category declining.

Indeed Hiring Lab·Jul 2025·Tier 2

Computer graphic artist job postings declined 33% from pre-ChatGPT levels. Illustration and copywriting postings down 40%+. AI-creative hybrid roles growing.

CNBC·Jul 2025·Tier 2

Amazon deployed its 1 millionth robot across over 300 fulfillment centers worldwide. CEO Andy Jassy acknowledged that AI will result in fewer people doing some automated jobs, while new roles in robotics maintenance grew 30% at next-generation sites.

Bureau of Labor Statistics·Jul 2025·Tier 1

Real median weekly earnings for workers aged 16-24 in professional services fell 5.2% from 2023 to 2025.

Bureau of Labor Statistics·Jul 2025·Tier 1

Medical records, billing, and coding specialist employment projected to decline 8% through 2033, the steepest decline among healthcare occupations.

US Census Bureau·Jul 2025·Tier 1

US firm AI usage in production reached 10.2%, with 14.8% in testing. Large firms (500+ employees) at 28%. Adoption accelerating across all sectors.

Glassdoor Economic Research·Jul 2025·Tier 2

AI jobs pay more than similar jobs that do not focus on AI, with a typical premium of 25%. The share of AI jobs among new job listings increased 123% from 2023 to 2024.

Brookings Institution·Jul 2025·Tier 1

Significant decline in job availability and earnings for freelancers in AI-affected creative occupations; some workers adapted by transitioning to programming.

Brookings Institution·Jul 2025·Tier 1

High-skill freelancers disproportionately affected by AI — top performers were impacted most, contradicting conventional wisdom that expertise insulates workers.

OECD·Jul 2025·Tier 1

Professional services occupations face the largest task-level AI exposure among high-income economies, with 18-25% of tasks fully automatable by current LLMs.

Carta·Jul 2025·Tier 2

Solo-founder share of new startups rose from 23.7% (2019) to 36.3% (H1 2025). Acceleration from 30.5% to 36.3% in 2024-2025 coincides with AI coding assistants going mainstream.

June 202521 sources

PwC·Jun 2025·Tier 2

Job growth remained robust even in AI-exposed occupations (38%). Degree requirements fell 7pp for AI-augmented jobs. AI-exposed professions saw 55% faster skill churn in job postings.

ifo Institute·Jun 2025·Tier 2

27.1% of companies expect artificial intelligence to lead to job cuts in the next five years. Only 5.2% of companies anticipate additional jobs, while two-thirds expect no change.

NBER / Richmond Fed (Ping Wang, Tsz-Nga Wong)·Jun 2025·Tier 1

Calibrated to U.S. data, the model predicts more than threefold improvements in productivity in the some-AI steady state, alongside a long-run employment loss of 23%, with half this loss occurring over the initial five-year transition.

Bureau of Labor Statistics·Jun 2025·Tier 1

Graphic designer employment projected to decline 4% through 2033. Technical writers projected flat. New AI-creative hybrid roles growing.

Microsoft/Accenture (Cui, Demirer, Jaffe, Musolff, Peng, Salz)·Jun 2025·Tier 1

26% increase in completed pull requests, 13.55% increase in commits, 38.38% increase in builds — but build success rate fell by 5.53 percentage points.

Harvard Business School (Chen, Srinivasan, Zakerinia)·Jun 2025·Tier 1

Using O*NET and LightCast job postings data (2019-June 2024), the study found a 24% decrease in generative AI-exposed skills per firm per quarter for automation-prone occupations, while augmentation-prone occupations saw a 15% increase. Demonstrates the dual displacement/complementarity impact of generative AI.

J.P. Morgan Global Research·Jun 2025·Tier 2

Less than 10% of firms using AI regularly as of mid-2025 (BTOS data); ~20% adoption in professional, scientific, and technical industries.

J.P. Morgan Global Research·Jun 2025·Tier 2

Tech/info/media employment stopped growing at end of 2022, coinciding with ChatGPT release; less than 10% of firms using AI regularly as of mid-2025.

J.P. Morgan Global Research·Jun 2025·Tier 2

Non-routine cognitive job workers now face rising unemployment risk, surpassing non-routine manual workers for the first time.

Entrepreneur / Klarna·Jun 2025·Tier 1

Klarna reversed its AI-only CS strategy after customer satisfaction dropped 22%. CEO Siemiatkowski: 'we went too far.' Now operates hybrid model with AI handling ~66% but humans for complex cases.

Queen Mary University of London / Alan Turing Institute·Jun 2025·Tier 1

Survey of 335 freelance creative workers: 73% believe GenAI is altering quality of work; 68% feel job security reduced; 61% say value placed on their work has decreased; 55% report decline in financial compensation.

SSRN (Eisfeldt, Schubert, Taska, Zhang)·Jun 2025·Tier 1

678 occupations having on average 23% of their tasks exposed to Generative AI

arXiv (Ju, Aral)·Jun 2025·Tier 1

Human-AI teams show roughly 73 percent higher productivity per worker for ad copy, though human-human teams remained superior for images.

PwC·Jun 2025·Tier 2

Productivity growth in AI-exposed industries including financial services nearly quadrupled from 7% to 27% (2018-2024); AI-exposed sectors see 3x higher revenue-per-employee growth.

Science (Daniotti, Wachs, Feng, Neffke)·Jun 2025·Tier 1

AI-assisted coding jumped from around 5% in 2022 to nearly 30% in the last quarter of 2024. Quarterly output has increased by 3.6%. Experienced programmers benefit more; beginners hardly benefit at all.

UK Government Digital Service·Jun 2025·Tier 2

GitHub Copilot saves 26 minutes per day across 20,000 UK civil servants.

SSRN (Gupta, Qian, Simintzi, Sun)·Jun 2025·Tier 1

Exposed startups increased productivity, scaled faster, accelerated through financing rounds. VC shifted toward frequent, smaller investments, boosting new firm formation.

OECD·Jun 2025·Tier 2

GenAI boosts innovation by enhancing idea generation, accelerating R&D, and fostering entrepreneurship by lowering entry barriers.

NBER·Jun 2025·Tier 1

Workplaces that adopted AI chatbots showed no significant difference in employment, early-career jobs, job churn, or worker mix. Difference-in-differences estimates for earnings and wages are all precisely estimated zeros, ruling out effects larger than 2%.

NBER·Jun 2025·Tier 1

Calibrated to U.S. data, the model predicts more than threefold productivity improvements alongside a long-run employment loss of 23%, with half (~11.5%) occurring over the initial five-year transition period.

May 202514 sources

Fortune·May 2025·Tier 3

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that up to 50% of entry-level office jobs could be substantially impacted by AI within the next 2-3 years.

Cisco·May 2025·Tier 2

Survey of 7,950 decision-makers: 68% of all CS interactions expected to be handled by agentic AI by 2028. 56% expected within 12 months.

ILO / NASK·May 2025·Tier 2

25% of global employment falls within occupations potentially exposed to GenAI, with higher shares in high-income countries (34%). Clerical support roles remain the most exposed.

INET (Korinek, Stiglitz)·May 2025·Tier 1

Framework for guiding innovation to increase labor demand; steering technology becomes more desirable the less efficient social safety nets are.

INET (Korinek, Stiglitz)·May 2025·Tier 1

For the empirically plausible case that capital and labor are gross complements, raising wages requires capital-augmenting innovation rather than labor-augmenting.

Stanford GSB / MIT Sloan (Choi, Xie)·May 2025·Tier 1

AI-adopting accountants see 55% increase in weekly client support, 8.5% of time reallocated from data entry to high-value tasks, 12% increase in ledger granularity, and 7.5-day reduction in monthly close time.

QJE (Brynjolfsson, Li, Raymond)·May 2025·Tier 1

AI assistance increases customer service worker productivity by 15% on average. Less experienced workers improve most; AI disseminates best practices from top performers.

QJE (Brynjolfsson, Li, Raymond)·May 2025·Tier 1

Access to AI assistance increases worker productivity, as measured by issues resolved per hour, by 15% on average, with substantial heterogeneity across workers.

International Labour Organization·May 2025·Tier 1

Platform workers in writing, translation, and data labeling report median earnings declines of 15-25% since 2023.

NVIDIA (SEC Filing)·May 2025·Tier 1

NVIDIA median employee total compensation was $301,233 in FY2025 (ending January 2025), with CEO-to-median pay ratio of 166:1. Total headcount reached 36,000, a 21.6% increase YoY.

OECD (Manca & Eslava)·May 2025·Tier 1

Approximately 32% of health employment is classified under potential augmentation, approximately 4.3% of roles are identified as potentially automatable, and the high automation risk category constitutes around 0.6% of the health workforce. Analysis of 55.5 million online job postings.

April 20258 sources

The Chronicle of Higher Education·Apr 2025·Tier 3

Over the next decade AI will decimate faculty ranks; TAs will be first casualties, then non-tenured faculty, then tenured positions via attrition. Predicts significant culling of doctoral programs.

OECD Publishing·Apr 2025·Tier 2

With one in three job vacancies having high AI exposure, a significant share of jobs in OECD economies are influenced by the rise of AI.

FactSet·Apr 2025·Tier 1

44% of S&P 500 discussed AI-workforce in Q1 2025, a slight pullback from Q4 2024's record. Discussion maturing: less hype, more specific deployment data.

NBER / AER: Insights (Dillon, Jaffe, Immorlica, Stanton)·Apr 2025·Tier 1

In a field experiment across 66 firms and 7,137 knowledge workers, the 80% of treated workers who used the AI tool spent two fewer hours on email each week. We do not detect shifts in the quantity or composition of workers' tasks.

Pew Research Center·Apr 2025·Tier 1

31% of AI experts predict AI will lead to fewer teacher jobs in 20 years. Survey of 1,013 AI experts and 5,410 US adults.

OECD·Apr 2025·Tier 1

Youth (18-24) employment in OECD countries in AI-exposed sectors declined 4.5% YoY. Real starting salaries fell 3-8% across knowledge-work sectors.

Microsoft·Apr 2025·Tier 2

75% of knowledge workers use AI at work. 78% bring their own AI tools. Survey of 31,000 workers across 31 countries.

QuickBooks/Intuit·Apr 2025·Tier 2

68% of small businesses now use AI regularly (up from 48% in July 2024). 74% say AI makes them more productive. Survey of 2,200+ US businesses.

March 202510 sources

LISER / arXiv (Marguerit)·Mar 2025·Tier 1

Augmentation AI fosters new work and raises wages for high-skilled occupations.

NBER / HBS (Dell'Acqua, Ayoubi et al.)·Mar 2025·Tier 1

In a pre-registered RCT with 776 P&G professionals, individuals with AI matched teams without AI (+0.37 SD improvement). AI broke professional silos.

YouGov (Ballard)·Mar 2025·Tier 2

56% of Americans use AI tools; 28% weekly. Skepticism about AI's effects increased 8 percentage points year over year.

Gartner·Mar 2025·Tier 2

Agentic AI will autonomously resolve 80% of common customer service issues by 2029. Currently only 1.6% of interactions are fully automated end-to-end.

SSRN (Bao, Lou, Sun)·Mar 2025·Tier 1

GenAI access leads to increased incorporated entrepreneurship for individuals with higher GenAI exposure -- effect specific to STEM population. Mechanism tests support the augmentation channel.

Ernst & Young·Mar 2025·Tier 2

EY invested $1.4B in AI, reporting that AI-assisted audit procedures now cover 40% of routine testing tasks previously performed by junior staff.

Pearson plc·Mar 2025·Tier 2

Pearson pivoted to AI-first content delivery, reducing editorial headcount by 18% while growing AI-generated adaptive learning content 300%.

Amazon·Mar 2025·Tier 1

Amazon deployed roughly 800,000 mobile robots across its fulfillment centers by 2024, making it the largest private deployer of mobile robots globally.

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor·Mar 2025·Tier 1

In 36 of 49 economies, fewer than 30% of early-stage entrepreneurs consider AI 'very important.' Growing AI Readiness Gap separating entrepreneurs with AI access from those without.

Harvard Business School·Mar 2025·Tier 1

24% decrease in generative AI-exposed skills per firm per quarter in top-quartile automation-exposed jobs. 15% increase in AI-exposed skills for augmentation-prone jobs. Augmentation-prone job postings increased 22% per quarter per firm.

February 202521 sources

Teleperformance SE (via BusinessWire)·Feb 2025·Tier 2

Teleperformance reported full-year 2024 revenue of EUR 10,280 million. Plans to invest up to EUR 100 million in AI-focused partnerships during 2025. Over 200 new AI projects launched in 2024.

Oxford Internet Institute (Bone, Ehlinger, Stephany)·Feb 2025·Tier 1

AI skills and expertise are highly valued by employers, offering a 23% wage premium, compared to a 13% wage premium for Master's degrees and a 33% premium for PhDs. In science, engineering, and tech jobs, the AI skills premium is 36%. Analysis of over 10 million online job vacancies in the UK between 2018 to 2024.

IBM (SEC Filing)·Feb 2025·Tier 1

IBM CEO stated plans to replace ~7,800 back-office roles with AI. Company investing in reskilling remaining workforce for AI-augmented roles.

Fiverr International Ltd.·Feb 2025·Tier 2

Fiverr FY2024 marketplace revenue declined 1.3% YoY to $303.1M. Active buyers fell 10% to 3.6M. AI-related categories showed strong growth while traditional low-complexity gig categories contracted.

Forrester·Feb 2025·Tier 2

By 2028, 20% of marketing content will be generated entirely by AI. Creative teams will shrink 15-25% but output will increase.

JPMorgan Chase (SEC Filing)·Feb 2025·Tier 1

JPMorgan disclosed deploying LLM-based tools across legal, compliance, and research functions, with estimated productivity gains equivalent to 3,000+ full-time roles.

Shopify (Earnings Call)·Feb 2025·Tier 1

Shopify reported its AI assistant Sidekick now resolves 40% of merchant support queries without human intervention, up from 12% one year prior.

Indeed Hiring Lab·Feb 2025·Tier 2

Posted wages for AI-exposed occupations (admin, data entry, basic accounting) grew 1.2% YoY vs. 4.1% for non-AI-exposed roles, suggesting wage suppression.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Monthly Labor Review)·Feb 2025·Tier 1

BLS projects employment of software developers to increase 17.9 percent between 2023 and 2033. Despite its exposure to GenAI applications, this occupation is unlikely to experience a decline in employment. Customer service representatives projected to decline 5.0 percent. Medical transcriptionists projected to decline 4.7 percent. Paralegals projected to grow 1.2 percent.

Bureau of Labor Statistics·Feb 2025·Tier 1

Overall employment of computer programmers is projected to decline 9.6 percent from 2023 to 2033.

Indeed Hiring Lab·Feb 2025·Tier 2

Software developer job postings 33% below pre-pandemic baseline as of November 2024. AI/ML roles the only growing category.

Alphabet (SEC Filing)·Feb 2025·Tier 1

Alphabet disclosed ongoing workforce restructuring, noting AI tools have reduced need for certain engineering and support roles while increasing demand for AI/ML specialists.

Review of Economics and Statistics (Bessen, Goos, Salomons, van den Berge)·Feb 2025·Tier 1

Tenured workers cumulatively lose about 3,800 Euros in wage and salary earnings over five years on average (about 9% of one year's income). Only 0.7% of all workers leave their employers each year due to automation, far below mass layoff rates.

Chegg (SEC Filing / Press Release)·Feb 2025·Tier 2

Chegg eliminated 636 employees across two rounds of layoffs (23% in 2024, then additional cuts in early 2025), totaling ~67% of peak workforce. CEO explicitly cited AI as existential threat to homework-help business model.

LinkedIn Economic Graph·Feb 2025·Tier 2

LinkedIn's AI skills resources hub tracking AI engineering talent growth (130% increase since 2016). 7 out of every 1,000 LinkedIn members globally are AI engineering talent.

Meta Platforms (SEC Filing)·Feb 2025·Tier 1

Meta's 'Year of Efficiency' resulted in ~21,000 job cuts across 2023. Company cited AI-driven productivity gains enabling smaller teams to maintain output.

NBER (Hampole, Papanikolaou, Schmidt, Seegmiller)·Feb 2025·Tier 1

Tasks with higher AI exposure subsequently experience reduced labor demand. 1 SD increase in AI exposure reduces relative demand for related skills by 2%.

PNAS Nexus·Feb 2025·Tier 1

Workers in AI-exposed occupations face significantly higher unemployment risk.

PNAS Nexus·Feb 2025·Tier 1

Workers in AI-exposed occupations face significantly higher unemployment risk, suggesting aggregate job losses may exceed earlier estimates.

NBER (Hampole, Traina, Yin)·Feb 2025·Tier 1

Most adversely impacted occupations (business, financial, engineering) experienced a decline of 2% to 2.5% over a five-year period. Reduced demand in exposed occupations is offset by productivity-driven increases in labor demand at AI-adopting firms.

January 202537 sources

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (Teutloff, Einsiedler, Kässi, Braesemann, Mishkin, del Rio-Chanona)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

Demand for substitutable skills (writing, translation) decreased 20-50% relative to counterfactual after ChatGPT launch. Short-term (1-3 week) jobs saw sharpest decline. ML programming demand grew 24%; AI chatbot development nearly tripled.

NBER (Jiang, Park, Xiao, Zhang)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

When someone transitions to a job with high exposure to AI, they work 3.5 hours longer per week. Productivity gains captured by firms, not wages.

Indeed Hiring Lab·Jan 2025·Tier 2

Total US job postings are 15% below their February 2022 peak. Categories most exposed to AI (data entry, basic admin, customer service) show steepest declines.

Indeed Hiring Lab·Jan 2025·Tier 2

Data entry (-27%), customer service (-18%), and basic admin (-22%) postings saw steepest declines. AI/ML postings +42% YoY.

McKinsey & Company·Jan 2025·Tier 2

AI is now a core part of business strategy for 78% of respondents. 65% report measurable revenue or cost impact from AI deployments.

OECD·Jan 2025·Tier 1

Teaching roles are among the least automatable (15% task exposure), but education support staff, administration, and tutoring face 30-40% task displacement.

Harvard Business School·Jan 2025·Tier 1

17% decrease in job postings for occupations in top quartile of automation potential, alongside 22% increase in postings for augmentation-prone occupations.

Harvard Business School·Jan 2025·Tier 1

17% decrease in job postings for highly automatable occupations, but 22% increase for augmentation-prone ones — net effect depends on occupation mix.

Harvard Business School·Jan 2025·Tier 1

24% decrease in AI-exposed skills required in highly automatable jobs, but 15% increase in AI-exposed skills for augmentation-prone professional roles.

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (Demirci, Jiang, Kartal, Trujillo)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

Peer-reviewed analysis of 2M job postings: freelance writing postings fell 30.37%, graphic design 18.49%, 3D modeling 15.57% within 8 months of ChatGPT launch. Applications per posting rose 8.57%.

FactSet·Jan 2025·Tier 1

Record 48% of S&P 500 companies mentioned AI in workforce context. Average mentions per call reached 11. 'Restructuring' and 'automation' became top co-occurring terms.

Indeed Hiring Lab·Jan 2025·Tier 2

Customer service representative postings declined 18% year-over-year. Remaining postings increasingly require technical skills and AI tool familiarity.

Deloitte·Jan 2025·Tier 2

Health systems deploying AI for revenue cycle management report 30% reduction in administrative FTEs within 18 months.

Bloomberg Intelligence·Jan 2025·Tier 2

Global banks will cut up to 200,000 jobs in next 3-5 years; average expected net workforce cut of 3%. Nearly a quarter of bank CIOs/CTOs foresee 5-10% reduction. Survey of 93 respondents from Citi, JPMorgan, Goldman.

Duolingo·Jan 2025·Tier 3

Duolingo cut 10%+ of its contractor workforce, explicitly replacing human content creators with AI-generated language exercises. CEO announced 'AI-first' strategy for all content production.

Workday / Hanover Research·Jan 2025·Tier 2

Among respondents actively using or experimenting with AI, 93% agree that it allows them to focus more on higher-level responsibilities. The leading response (53%) was 'AI will augment human capabilities, leading to increased productivity and new forms of innovation.'

World Economic Forum·Jan 2025·Tier 2

Financial services: GenAI has automation potential for 32-39% of tasks; another 34-37% significantly augmented. 86% of financial services orgs cite AI as crucial transformation driver.

World Economic Forum·Jan 2025·Tier 2

Robotics and automation expected to drive business transformation for 58% of employers. Robots and automation forecast to displace 5 million more jobs than they create. 92 million jobs displaced, 170 million created, net +78 million by 2030.

Forrester·Jan 2025·Tier 2

AI and automation could account for 6% of total US job losses by 2030, equating to 10.4 million roles. Widespread AI-driven job replacement remains unlikely. AI will augment 20% of jobs rather than eliminate them.

Forrester·Jan 2025·Tier 2

Forrester estimates 6% of US jobs will be lost to AI and automation by 2030, partially offset by new job creation.

PNAS (Humlum, Vestergaard)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

Workers see ChatGPT halving working times in about a third of tasks, but employer restrictions and required training hinder adoption.

PNAS (Humlum, Vestergaard)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

Half of workers in exposed occupations have used ChatGPT; younger, male, higher-achieving workers lead adoption. Women 16pp less likely to use for work.

PNAS (Humlum, Vestergaard)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

Half of workers in AI-exposed occupations have used ChatGPT; adoption unequal — women 16pp less likely, employer restrictions hinder broader use.

HIMSS·Jan 2025·Tier 2

Potential annual savings of $122 billion through AI automation of medical coding; 42% of claim denials stem from coding issues.

Imperial College London Business School·Jan 2025·Tier 2

Generative AI is upending freelance work. High-skill freelancers were disproportionately impacted, with top performers seeing the largest setbacks in both contracts and earnings.

SSRN (Maasoum, Lichtinger)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

GenAI adopters cut junior hiring 22%; seniority composition shifts toward more experienced workers.

SSRN (Cao, Cheng, Gu, Jiang)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

ChatGPT cuts analyst report length by 8.9% and reduces quality by 17%. Greater AI reliance is associated with worse earnings forecasts.

Academic paper (Bonfiglioli et al.)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

AI adoption associated with -0.6 percentage point decline in employment-to-population ratio.

Academic paper (Abrahams, Levy)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

High-education, high-cost metros are most vulnerable to AI displacement.

Brookings Institution (Alikhani et al.)·Jan 2025·Tier 2

About 20% use AI professionally; 57% personal use. Adoption varies significantly by education and income.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Abel et al.)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

Over 50% of information/finance firms use AI; few report layoffs from AI adoption.

CESifo (Menkhoff)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

RCT shows information about AI productivity gains increases adoption among German firms.

MIT/Stanford (Shao, Brynjolfsson)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

Workers want 46% of their tasks automated; preferences vary by task type and worker characteristics.

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (Teutloff et al.)·Jan 2025·Tier 1

Analysis of 3M+ job postings. Demand for substitutable skills decreased 20-50%. ML programming demand grew 24%. AI chatbot development demand nearly tripled.

December 20244 sources

CEPR / Stanford Digital Economy Lab (Brynjolfsson, Korinek, Agrawal)·Dec 2024·Tier 1

As we approach Transformative AI, there is urgent need to advance understanding of how it reshapes economic models, institutions, and policies. Proposes nine Grand Challenges including economic growth, income distribution, and transition dynamics.

Bloomberry (analysis of Lightcast data)·Dec 2024·Tier 2

Job openings grew 80% for AI scientists and 70% for ML engineers, while backend engineer postings declined 14%, frontend 24%, and data engineers 20%+.

NCBI / ASTP Health IT Data Brief·Dec 2024·Tier 1

Hospital use of AI for billing automation surged from 36% to 61% (+25pp) between 2023 and 2024. Scheduling automation grew from 51% to 67%. Fastest-growing AI use cases in healthcare.

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)·Dec 2024·Tier 3

Covers the role of creative industries in trade and economic growth; discusses AI's impact on the creative economy. Creative services exports surged to $1.4 trillion in 2022.

November 20243 sources

SSRN (Boke, De la Parra, Gallemore, Glaeser)·Nov 2024·Tier 1

AI investment reduces accounting hiring but not work quality. 10 additional AI accounting roles associated with 49 fewer accounting-skill postings.

Bureau of Labor Statistics·Nov 2024·Tier 1

Computer programmer employment (routine coding roles) fell ~27.5% in roughly two years following ChatGPT's release — one of the largest two-year drops in any occupation tracked by BLS. Software developer employment remained flat.

OECD·Nov 2024·Tier 2

Up to 30% of all administrative tasks performed by physicians, dentists, pharmacists, and specialists can be automated by 2030.

October 20247 sources

FactSet·Oct 2024·Tier 1

44% of S&P 500 discussed AI-workforce. Key new theme: 'AI-native' hiring replacing traditional roles in tech and professional services.

NBER (Hunt, Cockburn, Bessen)·Oct 2024·Tier 1

A commuting zone which is an additional 200 km from the closest AI hotspot has 17% lower growth in AI jobs' share of vacancies. 20% of the effect is explained by state borders.

WorldatWork·Oct 2024·Tier 2

Walmart's minimum starting wage is $14/hr while average U.S. associate wage reached $18.25 by 2025. The company invested in checkout and inventory automation but has not disclosed specific per-location staffing reduction figures.

Google (Paradis, Grey, Madison et al.)·Oct 2024·Tier 2

They found a 21 percent reduction in time spent per task. Interestingly, more experienced developers saw bigger effects, possibly because AI requires substantial verification and judgment rather than simply accepting generated code.

NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Carvajal, Franco, Isaksson)·Oct 2024·Tier 1

Among 595 business school students in Norway, male students were 25 percent more likely to be high AI users, and the gap was widest among the highest-performing women.

Harvard Business School (Hoffmann et al.)·Oct 2024·Tier 1

AI-generated code has 41% more vulnerabilities than human-written code. Developers overestimate the security of AI-generated code.

September 202410 sources

Deloitte·Sep 2024·Tier 2

79% of enterprise leaders expect gen AI to transform their industry within 3 years. 42% have gen AI in production, up from 22% a year earlier.

World Economic Forum·Sep 2024·Tier 2

Employers expect 23% of jobs to change in the next five years, with a net decline of 2-4% of total roles once job creation offsets displacement.

Harvard Gazette·Sep 2024·Tier 1

Learning gains for students in the AI-tutored group were about double those for the in-class group. Students using the AI tutor reported significantly more engagement and motivation to learn.

NBER (Brynjolfsson, Li, Raymond)·Sep 2024·Tier 1

AI assistance increased worker productivity by 14% on average, with greatest gains for novice and low-skilled workers.

Indeed Hiring Lab·Sep 2024·Tier 2

AI-related roles offer a 38% wage premium in top-10 tech metros vs. national average. Non-AI roles in same metros show only 12% premium.

arXiv (Yeverechyahu, Mayya, Oestreicher-Singer)·Sep 2024·Tier 1

They found a 37-55 percent increase in commits, mainly through contributions building on others' work like debugging or small edits.

Accenture·Sep 2024·Tier 2

73% of working time by US banking employees has high potential to be impacted by GenAI; productivity gains of 22-30% for early adopters over 3 years.

OECD·Sep 2024·Tier 2

14% of jobs across OECD countries are at high risk of automation. An additional 32% may be significantly changed but not eliminated. 27% of jobs at high risk when including all automation technologies including AI.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis·Sep 2024·Tier 1

Robots have a mixed effect: replacing jobs that relatively high-wage manufacturing employees used to perform, while also making firms more efficient and productive. One robot per thousand workers replaced about six workers.

Harvard Business School (Otis, Clarke, Delecourt, Holtz, Koning)·Sep 2024·Tier 1

5-month RCT with 640 Kenyan entrepreneurs using GPT-4 via WhatsApp. No average treatment effect, but high performers benefited by ~20% while low performers did ~10% worse.

August 20242 sources

CESifo / Management Science (Demirci, Hannane, Zhu)·Aug 2024·Tier 1

Image generation AI reduced demand for freelance illustrators by 21% within 12 months of widespread availability.

QJE (Autor, Chin, Salomons, Seegmiller)·Aug 2024·Tier 1

Demand-eroding effects of automation innovations have intensified in past four decades. New work creation has shifted from production to high-paid professional occupations.

July 20244 sources

FactSet·Jul 2024·Tier 1

Slight dip to 41% as initial AI hype normalizes. Discussion shifting from aspirational to operational — specific ROI figures cited.

Chegg (Earnings Report)·Jul 2024·Tier 2

Chegg subscribers fell 50% from peak as students shifted to ChatGPT. Company laid off 23% of workforce, citing AI as primary competitive threat.

Microsoft·Jul 2024·Tier 1

Over 60,000 Azure AI customers by end of FY2024, growing nearly 60% YoY. Azure AI revenue reached a $13 billion annual run rate, growing 175% YoY.

Upwork (SEC Filing)·Jul 2024·Tier 1

Gross services volume in writing declined 33% YoY. Translation down 40%. Company pivoting to AI-augmented freelancer model.

June 20248 sources

New England Journal of Medicine·Jun 2024·Tier 1

AI medical coding achieves 95% accuracy vs. 90% for human coders. AI-driven scheduling reduces no-show rates by 25%. Administrative cost reduction estimated at 20-35%.

Citigroup Global Perspectives & Solutions·Jun 2024·Tier 2

54% of banking jobs have high potential for automation — more than any other sector. Another 12% could be augmented. Insurance at 48%, capital markets at 40%.

American Hospital Association (Center for Health Innovation)·Jun 2024·Tier 2

About 46% of hospitals and health systems now use AI in their RCM operations. AI-driven NLP systems automatically assign billing codes, and AI predicts likely denials and their causes.

Stanford (Webb)·Jun 2024·Tier 1

AI exposure is concentrated among high-skill, high-wage occupations, but wage effects may cascade downward.

BIS Working Paper (Gambacorta, Qiu, Shan, Rees)·Jun 2024·Tier 1

They show that 20 percent of the 55 percent total increase was directly attributable to AI-generated lines, suggesting genuine productivity effects beyond simple code generation.

LinkedIn Economic Graph (Baird et al.)·Jun 2024·Tier 2

GitHub Copilot users show increased code output but no evidence of displacement in hiring patterns.

Wharton (Korst et al.)·Jun 2024·Tier 2

72% of enterprise leaders use AI weekly; 62% of companies actively use AI (n=800).

BIS (Auer et al.)·Jun 2024·Tier 1

17-36% of worker skills exposed at moderate-to-high AI capability level.

May 20244 sources

Upwork (Earnings Report)·May 2024·Tier 1

Writing and translation freelancer job volume declined ~30% YoY. Graphic design jobs fell 17%. AI-augmented creative roles grew 45%.

US Census Bureau·May 2024·Tier 1

AI usage among US firms rose to 6.6%, with an additional 9.1% in testing. Information sector at 24%, finance/insurance at 15%.

McKinsey & Company·May 2024·Tier 2

72% of organizations surveyed now use AI in at least one function, up from 55% the prior year. Generative AI adoption doubled.

April 20246 sources

Microsoft Investor Relations·Apr 2024·Tier 1

Microsoft Cloud revenue was $35.1 billion, up 23%. More than 65% of the Fortune 500 now use Azure OpenAI Service, and $100M+ Azure deals increased over 80% YoY.

Brookings Institution·Apr 2024·Tier 2

High-paid, white-collar occupations in business, finance, and law are among the most exposed to generative AI disruption.

FactSet·Apr 2024·Tier 1

43% mentioned AI-workforce topics. A new record. Companies increasingly cite specific headcount savings from AI deployments.

RAND Corporation·Apr 2024·Tier 2

Surveyed 1,020 teachers nationally; 18% of K-12 teachers used AI for teaching with most using adaptive learning systems weekly. 60% of districts planned to train teachers on AI.

Society of Authors (UK)·Apr 2024·Tier 1

26% of illustrators and 36% of translators have already lost work to generative AI. 78% of illustrators and 77% of translators expect further income decline. Survey of 787 creative professionals.

March 20245 sources

Economic Policy Institute (Bivens, Zipperer)·Mar 2024·Tier 2

AI is unlikely to be a direct threat to wages; the root causes of sluggish wage growth are policy decisions that led to imbalanced employer power. Productivity growth has not historically caused higher unemployment or inequality.

Brookings Institution·Mar 2024·Tier 2

Current employment data do not yet show large-scale AI-driven displacement.

Organization Science (Hui, Reshef, Zhou)·Mar 2024·Tier 1

ChatGPT's launch caused a 21% decline in freelance writing job postings and a 15% drop in average hourly rates within 6 months.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services·Mar 2024·Tier 1

CMS rules now allow electronic prior auth with AI-assisted review, enabling automation of an estimated 60% of prior authorization workflows.

ZEW (Carioli, Czarnitzki, Fernandez)·Mar 2024·Tier 1

Skills shortage has a positive and significant effect on AI adoption breadth and application areas (German Mannheim Innovation Panel).

February 20247 sources

Salesforce·Feb 2024·Tier 1

Salesforce Einstein platform serves over 200 billion AI predictions per day across Customer 360 applications. Einstein 1 platform enables AI-powered apps with low-code development and generative AI assistants.

Klarna·Feb 2024·Tier 1

Klarna's AI assistant handled 2.3 million conversations, doing the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents.

Indeed Hiring Lab·Feb 2024·Tier 2

Software development postings 28% below pre-pandemic baseline. Overall tech postings 25% below. Tech postings first fell below pre-pandemic levels in May 2023.

The Wall Street Journal·Feb 2024·Tier 3

White-collar layoffs growing as companies link cuts to AI. Google, Duolingo, UPS all reduced workforce. Nearly two-thirds of white-collar workers report improved productivity from AI use.

NBER (David Autor)·Feb 2024·Tier 1

AI could enable a larger set of workers to perform higher-stakes decision-making tasks currently reserved for elite experts. If used well, AI can help restore the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the US labor market.

BIS (Aldasoro, Armantier, Doerr, Gambacorta, Oliviero)·Feb 2024·Tier 1

Almost half of US households use generative artificial intelligence tools. Average expected probability of higher productivity: 30%; of job loss: 13%.

Journal of Finance (Gofman, Jin)·Feb 2024·Tier 1

AI professors' startups raise $23M on average in less than 2 years; 20% are acquired within ~3.5 years. Documents AI professor brain drain from universities.

January 202413 sources

CVL Economics (commissioned by Animation Guild IATSE 839, CAA, Human Artistry Campaign)·Jan 2024·Tier 2

About 21.4% of film, television, and animation jobs (approximately 118,500 jobs) are likely to be either consolidated, replaced, or eliminated by GenAI in the U.S. by 2026. 75% of survey respondents indicated Gen AI tools had supported the elimination, reduction, or consolidation of jobs in their business division.

NBC News·Jan 2024·Tier 1

UPS announced 12,000 job cuts, primarily management and salaried positions, as part of a $1 billion cost-reduction effort. Full-time driver pay raised to $49/hr top rate under 2023 Teamsters contract.

TechCrunch·Jan 2024·Tier 3

The advent and uptake of AI is playing some part in the scope of tech layoffs. Companies have signaled sizeable investments in AI to augment or replace work currently done by people.

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (McElheran, Li, Brynjolfsson et al.)·Jan 2024·Tier 1

Just under 6% of firms nationwide used AI as of 2017. Employment-weighted adoption was just over 18%. Based on the 2018 Annual Business Survey of 850,000 firms across the US. AI use clustered with cloud computing and robotics; most very large firms reported some AI use.

MIT (Svanberg et al.)·Jan 2024·Tier 1

Only 23% of worker wages for vision tasks would be cost-effective to automate with AI today.

OpenAI / U Penn (Eloundou et al.)·Jan 2024·Tier 1

~80% of the US workforce could have at least 10% of their tasks affected by GPTs. Legal, accounting, and financial analysis are among the highest-exposure occupations.

FactSet·Jan 2024·Tier 1

40% of S&P 500 companies mentioned AI in context of workforce strategy. 'Year of Efficiency' framing adopted by 12% of companies.

International Monetary Fund·Jan 2024·Tier 2

Almost 40% of global employment is exposed to AI, with advanced economies more affected.

International Monetary Fund·Jan 2024·Tier 2

Almost 40% of global employment is exposed to AI; in advanced economies, roughly 60% of workers face some degree of AI impact.

IMF Blog·Jan 2024·Tier 2

In most scenarios, AI will likely worsen overall inequality. Higher-income workers may see disproportionate wage gains.

IZA (Fouarge, Montizaan, Zwick)·Jan 2024·Tier 1

Financial sector workers perceive highest threat from AI. Age, tenure, and education moderate perceived AI displacement risk.

IZA / Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship (Fossen, McLemore, Sorgner)·Jan 2024·Tier 1

Labor-augmenting AI technologies enable self-employment among high-skilled workers. Workers exposed to labor-augmenting tech more likely to transition to solo self-employment.

December 20231 source

HBS Working Paper (Otis, Clarke, Delecourt, Holtz, Koning)·Dec 2023·Tier 1

The paper reports no statistically significant average effect on revenues or profits. But effects are highly heterogeneous: high‑performing businesses at baseline appear to improve (roughly 15 percent), while low performers do worse (roughly 8-10 percent worse)

November 20232 sources

Fiverr·Nov 2023·Tier 1

Average order value for writing gigs declined 20%. AI-assisted gig categories (AI art, prompt writing) grew 4x but at lower price points.

LinkedIn Economic Graph·Nov 2023·Tier 2

55% of LinkedIn members hold jobs that stand to be impacted by generative AI. By 2030, the skills required for jobs will change by up to 65%.

October 20231 source

FactSet·Oct 2023·Tier 1

AI mentions reached 36% of S&P 500 companies. Key themes: 'efficiency gains,' 'headcount optimization,' and 'AI-driven productivity.'

September 20232 sources

UNESCO·Sep 2023·Tier 2

AI tutoring systems can handle 60% of routine student queries. Teaching assistants and tutors face the most immediate displacement risk.

HBS (Dell'Acqua et al.)·Sep 2023·Tier 1

RCT with 758 BCG consultants: for tasks within AI's capabilities, 12.2% more tasks completed, 25.1% faster, output rated 40% higher quality. For tasks outside AI's frontier, performance was 19pp worse.

August 20234 sources

US Census Bureau·Aug 2023·Tier 1

3.8% of US firms reported using AI in production. An additional 6.4% were in testing/pilot phase. Adoption highest in information (18%) and professional services (12%).

McKinsey & Company·Aug 2023·Tier 2

One-third of respondents say their organizations are using gen AI regularly in at least one business function. AI adoption overall at 55% of survey respondents.

July 20237 sources

McKinsey Global Institute·Jul 2023·Tier 2

An additional 12 million occupational shifts expected by 2030. Workers in lower-wage jobs are up to 14 times more likely to need to change occupations. Activities accounting for up to 30% of hours could be automated.

McKinsey Global Institute·Jul 2023·Tier 2

By 2030, activities accounting for up to 30% of hours currently worked could be automated, accelerated by generative AI. Lower-wage workers face up to 14x more occupational transitions than higher-wage counterparts.

FactSet·Jul 2023·Tier 1

32% of S&P 500 companies now discuss AI on earnings calls. 'AI' mentioned an average of 7 times per call among mentioning companies.

Science (Noy, Zhang)·Jul 2023·Tier 1

ChatGPT compressed productivity distribution — low-ability workers gained most (40% time reduction, 18% quality increase). May reduce skill premium over time.

Science (Noy, Zhang)·Jul 2023·Tier 1

RCT: ChatGPT reduced task completion time by 40% and raised output quality by 18%. Low-ability workers benefited most, compressing the productivity distribution.

OECD·Jul 2023·Tier 1

27% of jobs are in occupations at high risk of automation across OECD countries.

OECD·Jul 2023·Tier 1

27% of jobs are in occupations at high risk, but actual displacement depends on adoption speed and policy response.

June 20234 sources

McKinsey Global Institute·Jun 2023·Tier 2

Generative AI could enable automation of up to 70% of business activities across occupations.

McKinsey Global Institute·Jun 2023·Tier 2

Generative AI could automate 25-40% of time spent on creative tasks, fundamentally changing the economics of content production.

McKinsey Global Institute·Jun 2023·Tier 2

Banking, insurance, and capital markets could see up to 50% of current work activities automated. Legal research and contract review are among the most automatable tasks.

Upwork·Jun 2023·Tier 1

Writing freelancers reported 15% fewer job postings; early signs of rate compression in translation and content categories.

May 20232 sources

PublicAffairs (Acemoglu, Johnson)·May 2023·Tier 2

Technology does not automatically benefit workers; shared prosperity requires deliberate policy choices. AI could follow historical pattern of concentrating gains among capital owners.

Indeed Hiring Lab·May 2023·Tier 2

Entry-level job postings in AI-exposed fields declined 12% YoY. Starting salaries for junior analysts, associates, and coordinators showed early downward pressure.

April 20234 sources

World Economic Forum·Apr 2023·Tier 2

Graphic designers, copywriters, and marketing analysts are among the roles employers expect to decline most rapidly due to generative AI.

World Economic Forum·Apr 2023·Tier 2

Employers estimate that 44% of workers' core skills will be disrupted in the next five years.

Accenture·Apr 2023·Tier 2

Accenture estimated that 40% of all working hours in healthcare could be supported or augmented by language-based AI.

FactSet·Apr 2023·Tier 1

AI mentions in S&P 500 earnings calls more than doubled to 18%. Companies began discussing AI efficiency gains and workforce implications.

March 20231 source

Goldman Sachs·Mar 2023·Tier 1

Roughly two-thirds of current jobs are exposed to some degree of AI automation; generative AI could substitute up to one-fourth of current work.

February 20232 sources

arXiv (Peng, Kalliamvakou, Cihon, Demirer)·Feb 2023·Tier 1

RCT: developers completed a coding task 55.8% faster with GitHub Copilot assistance.

January 20231 source

FactSet·Jan 2023·Tier 1

Only 8% of S&P 500 companies mentioned AI in Q4 2022 calls. Pre-ChatGPT baseline for corporate AI discussion.

November 20221 source

International Labour Organization·Nov 2022·Tier 1

Global monthly wages fell in real terms to -0.9% in H1 2022 — first negative real wage growth this century. Among advanced G20 countries, real wages declined to -2.2%.

January 20221 source

Journal of Labor Economics (Acemoglu, Autor, Hazell, Restrepo)·Jan 2022·Tier 1

AI-exposed establishments reduce hiring in non-AI positions. A wage premium of 11% exists for job postings requiring AI skills within the same firm.

October 20211 source

McKinsey & Company·Oct 2021·Tier 2

Up to $265B in annual US healthcare administrative costs could be reduced through simplification of coding, billing, and prior authorization processes.

January 20211 source

US Census Bureau·Jan 2021·Tier 1

New business applications hit record 5.4 million in 2021, a 24% increase over the 2019 pre-pandemic baseline.

July 20201 source

Economic Policy (James Bessen)·Jul 2020·Tier 1

The main impact of automation in the near future may be to cause a major reallocation of jobs, even if it does not permanently eliminate large numbers of jobs. During the 19th century, technologies had automated 98% of the labour required to weave a yard of cloth. Yet, the number of weaving jobs actually increased for decades over this period.

June 20201 source

Journal of Political Economy (Acemoglu, Restrepo)·Jun 2020·Tier 1

One more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment-to-population ratio by 0.2 percentage points and wages by 0.42%. Between 1990 and 2007, the increase in robots reduced employment by about 400,000 workers.

January 20182 sources

NBER (James Bessen)·Jan 2018·Tier 1

If demand is sufficiently elastic and AI does not completely replace humans, then technical change will create jobs rather than destroy them. Manufacturing employment followed an inverted-U driven by demand elasticity.

NBER (Acemoglu, Restrepo)·Jan 2018·Tier 1

Theoretical framework for automation's displacement and productivity effects on labor. Automation displaces workers from tasks they previously performed, but productivity gains create new tasks and increase demand for labor.

July 20151 source

Journal of Economic Perspectives (Mokyr, Vickers, Ziebarth)·Jul 2015·Tier 1

The evidence is that technological unemployment did not occur on a large scale during the Industrial Revolution. The fears of the Luddites that machinery would impoverish workers were not realized. Predictions of widespread technological unemployment were, by and large, wrong, but we should not trivialize the costs borne by the many who were actually displaced.