Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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Magnifica humanitas sets employment as AI’s hard constraint
Rome just told AI teams: no proof of worker protections, no rollout.
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Jeff Bezos’s deflation riff points to a judgment shortage
AI isn’t deleting work—it’s exploding the oversight, edge cases, and decisions only humans can own.
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Comptroller maps AI shock that cuts 111,000 NYC jobs
NYC’s Comptroller just swapped vibes for probabilities, warning that a 2026–27 AI shock could erase 111,000 private jobs and punch a $14B hole in tax receipts.
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Why Goldman says your job survives 25% automation
Wall Street just moved the AI jobs debate to your schedule: expect a quarter of tasks to vanish from the calendar—not the payroll—and watch who pays to retrain.
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California’s N‑6‑26 turns AI worry into work orders
Newsom’s order turns AI workforce anxiety into a production schedule—standing up a real-time labor dashboard, rewiring WARN as a sensor, and aiming safety nets and training at disruption before it hits.
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Meta cuts 8,000 as $145B shifts to data centers
Overnight, Meta swapped headcount for megawatts—gutting people-centric roles, drafting thousands into AI pods, and betting its future on data centers as the real workforce.
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Developer postings rebound 14 percent as AI fluency pays
The roles standing closest to AI aren’t disappearing—they’re capturing demand and the pay premium.
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97% plan AI, yet 48% stalled by security
Security readiness—not cost—just became the choke point for AI value, pushing hiring toward “secure‑AI operators” and rewarding orgs that upskill ops over poaching researchers.
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Cheaper first drafts create more law, not fewer lawyers
AI didn’t shrink law—it made the cheap parts vanish and the judgment parts decisive, rewiring junior work, pricing, and governance along the way.
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Turn on Microsoft’s agent, quietly freeze hiring
Microsoft’s AI chief just turned “12–18 months” from talk into a roadmap—agents as defaults, backfills on ice, and throughput quietly doubling without the pink slips.