Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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CPS dissimilarity index stays flat after ChatGPT
Yale and Brookings just put the AI-jobs panic under a microscope and found ordinary churn, not a quake.
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Kevin O’Leary’s eight words meet a six‑figure H‑1B
O’Leary’s tidy “AI reallocates” line only works if leaders pay for the bridge—upskilling at home and visas that don’t price out the talent to make it real.
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SB 53 forces recall‑ready AI and new safety jobs
California’s SB 53 forces frontier AI to ship with a paper trail, turning safety ops, incident reporting, and human-in-the-loop design into the new launch checklist.
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The Guardian backs worker veto on AI as UK pivots
The Guardian just moved the UK’s AI debate from hype to a worker mandate: no distribution, consent, and compensation—no deal.
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Walmart keeps payroll flat, rebuilds roles with agent builders
Walmart just made “every job” a work order—keeping 2.1M workers while rewiring roles with AI and a 2026 national certification that could reset retail’s job spec.
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Accenture’s Macchi says Europe wins AI by reskilling, not layoffs
Europe’s AI edge will come from converting public euros into cross‑border, mid‑career reskilling at scale before the calendar quietly turns into a layoff machine.
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Cisco’s 1.5 million-case shift resets the first rung
Cisco quietly routed 1.5 million ‘easy’ tickets to AI—now day-one jobs start where the scripts fail.
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IMF sees 60% job exposure, US‑centric AI capital risk
The IMF just recast AI as a balance-sheet risk and an infrastructure mandate—from the socket to the skills pipeline—warning that U.S.-centric capital could turn a productivity bet into a correlated shock.
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Indeed’s GenAI index maps 46% of job skills as hybrid
Indeed’s new GenAI Skill Transformation Index is less a layoff forecast than a wiring diagram for your workflows—showing which skills flip to hybrid, which stay human, and where the bottlenecks move next.
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Gender Snapshot 2025 finds 27.6% of women’s jobs exposed
UN’s new map shows AI isn’t killing most jobs—it’s carving out the high-value bits and leaving women with the leftovers unless we redesign the work.