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Comment by Dan Shapero

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Chief Operating Officer at LinkedIn, writing on labour-market trends and AI-enabled work.
While there is evidence that AI is impacting jobs in small pockets, it’s also creating demand at scale – including more than 600,000 new, AI-enabled data centre jobs and 1.3 million new roles like AI Engineers, Forward-Deployed Engineers and Data Annotators.
AI Verified (Jan 15, 2026)
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Dan Shapero, “AI has already added 1.3 million new jobs, according to LinkedIn data,” World Economic Forum, January 15, 2026.
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AI will create more jobs than it destroys
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AI Verified Renewed link: Shapero contrasts small-pocket impacts with large-scale AI-enabled job creation, directly supporting a stance on net AI jobs. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Shapero says AI is creating demand at scale, with 600,000 data-centre jobs and 1.3m AI roles; for is the substantially more likely stance. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The cited WEF article (15 Jan 2026) attributes and reproduces this wording by Dan Shapero at lines 20–25. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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