Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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California broadens AI oversight and ties it to labor impacts
California issued an executive order to speed up its AI oversight framework and separately tied AI policy to workers, job training, and public-benefit programs. The state also said it will convene outside experts within two months.
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Anthropic and Accenture create an embedded-evaluator track inside Anthropic
Anthropic and Accenture announced a partnership to build embedded evaluators who will work inside Anthropic with employee-like access while red-teaming models and testing safeguards.
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Transport unions adopt global AI principles that put worker rights into bargaining
Transport unions adopted global AI principles in Colombo that call for worker information, consultation, negotiation, and rights over data and surveillance before workplace AI is introduced or modified.
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ManpowerGroup says tech hiring stayed firm in Q4 2026 as employers favored AI and human skills
ManpowerGroup says global tech hiring stayed firm for Q4 2026, while employers increasingly favored AI capability paired with communication, professionalism, and adaptability.
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AT&T and ServiceNow post “AI-native” engineering jobs on the same day
AT&T and ServiceNow each posted engineering roles that explicitly use “AI-native” language on September 15, 2026.
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Trump rejects new AI guardrails as Amodei presses for slower frontier development
Trump rejected renewed calls for tighter AI guardrails as Dario Amodei urged slower frontier development and more oversight, while AP linked the policy fight to voter worries about job losses.
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New Census paper links AI exposure to weaker first-job outcomes for college graduates
A Census working paper finds the sharpest AI-linked labor-market effects at college graduates’ first job, with weaker initial employment and earnings in the most exposed majors.
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Salesforce expands Agentforce with job-ready AI agents for sales, service, HR, and back-office work
Salesforce said it expanded Agentforce with named AI agents for sales, service, commerce, employee experience, and back-office work, while SiliconANGLE said the launch is aimed at automating sales and support tasks.
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Microsoft and teacher unions put AI privacy terms into school contracts
Microsoft, the AFT, and the UFT announced a school AI privacy standard that bars training models on student and educator data and can be written into Microsoft education contracts.
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Wipro says AI has created capacity equal to 20,000 workers, and those employees were redeployed
Wipro said its AI initiatives have lifted productivity by the equivalent of 20,000 employees, and Reuters reported those workers were redeployed within the company.