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Google SVP of Research, Labs, Technology & Society; Oxford-trained AI researcher and technology-policy expert.
The most jobs we can attribute to having been lost from AI... was 200,000, and the jobs that had grown as a result of the AI effects were actually more than a million.
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Scuttlebutt, “At most 200K US jobs lost to AI so far, more than 1M gained — Google's research SVP,” October 17, 2026. The article reports James Manyika's Silicon Valley Girl interview and quotes him: “The most jobs we can attribute to having been lost from AI... was 200,000, and the jobs that had grown as a result of the AI effects were actually more than a million.”
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Disputed Source check: the Oct. 17 Scuttlebutt page attributes the quote to James Manyika but says “the jobs have grown,” while this record says “jobs that had grown”; the stored source URL therefore does not contain the stored wording. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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