Stanford Digital Economy Lab on AI will create more jobs than it destro…

Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Stanford University research lab focused on the digital economy.

AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards.

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Stanford Digital Economy Lab open letter, reported by the Associated Press, July 13, 2026.

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

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AI Verified The letter explicitly presents large-scale job displacement and major gains as competing possibilities, making abstention on the net-jobs claim substantially more likely than a directional position. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The letter describes both possible large job displacement and living-standard gains; it does not predict whether AI creates more jobs than it destroys. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified AP report reproduces the Stanford Digital Economy Lab-organized open letter verbatim; it presents both displacement risks and living-standard opportunities. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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