AI will create more jobs than it destroys

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Arguments for

Human-machine complementarity

Supporters say jobs are bundles of tasks joined by judgment, coordination, trust and accountability, so automating pieces does not eliminate the whole job. By making expertise easier to apply and saving time on narrower tasks, AI is described as raising the value of remaining human work and boosting productivity without replacing workers.

The doomsday case rests on a flawed arithmetic: If AI can do 40 percent of a job’s tasks, then 40 percent of the work must go. But a job is not a to-do list of separable chores. Firms employ people for bundles of work held together by judgment, coordination, client trust and acco…

Victor Menaldo · Jul 12, 2026 · full quote
Our belief is that AI will largely augment human capability and not replace it. Creativity, judgement, communication and collaboration become much more important, because they leverage the benefits of human capability rather than compete with technology.

Jonas Prising · Jun 25, 2026 · full quote
AI delivers significant productivity gains by saving a few minutes for every employee—not by replacing jobs.

Pascal Jauffret · Jul 13, 2026 · full quote
The greatest value often comes from making expertise easier to access and apply, rather than attempting to replace it altogether.

Juliet Gurney · Jul 14, 2026 · full quote
When a technology makes workers more productive, it makes their labor more valuable, not less, lowering costs, expanding what a firm can attempt, and creating demand for work nobody had imagined.

Nathan Leamer · Jul 20, 2026 · full quote

Demand expansion from productivity

Another pro argument is that cheaper analysis, prediction, communication, coordination and action let firms attempt more, scale services, and identify more problems worth solving. In this account, productivity gains expand demand, create new products, services and firms, and generate labor needs that are hard to predict in advance.

This is likely to be the net impact of AI. By reducing the cost of analysis, prediction, communication, coordination, and—increasingly in its agentic form—action, AI makes a wide range of services cheaper and more scalable. This will eventually increase demand, while also enablin…

Dan Katz · Jun 25, 2026 · full quote
When a technology makes workers more productive, it makes their labor more valuable, not less, lowering costs, expanding what a firm can attempt, and creating demand for work nobody had imagined.

Nathan Leamer · Jul 20, 2026 · full quote
AI will ultimately spur economic growth well above baseline projections, generating entirely new categories of employment that are impossible to anticipate today while also creating induced demand for labour across a rapidly expanding economy.

Andrew MacDonald · May 27, 2026 · full quote
I know there’s a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant and so on. I totally disagree with this point of view. And I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage.

Jeff Bezos · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote
Most new jobs, in fact, will be things that very few individuals can think of in advance. But the market with wages and prices iterates with its own algorithms and solves that problem, creates new jobs.

Tyler Cowen · Jun 9, 2026 · full quote

Adopters are hiring

Proponents also point to early firm-level evidence that companies using AI most heavily are hiring more, seeing faster headcount and wage growth, and seldom reporting reduced headcount. They argue the greatest returns come when AI amplifies human expertise instead of being treated mainly as an automation tool.

Companies most able to use AI are seeing faster headcount growth than the least AI-exposed companies (52% vs 36%) and higher wage growth (24% vs 17%).

PwC · Jul 13, 2026 · full quote
The companies that I know that have adopted AI the most are the ones that are hiring the most. And the companies, as a general rule, that are talking about doing layoffs because of AI are the ones adopting AI the least.

Sam Altman · Jun 23, 2026 · full quote
Only about 3 in 10 firms have adopted AI currently. Among firms that have adopted AI, only a small minority – about 6% reported reduced headcount. More commonly, firms are redesigning jobs and creating new AI-related roles, indicating that AI is changing how work is done, how the…

Josephine Teo · Jun 5, 2026 · full quote
Despite concerns of AI-driven job losses, a new study from JLL finds that a majority of senior business leaders expect their workforces to grow (60%), not shrink (40%) – similarly, most expect AI to reinvent human roles (60%), rather than replace them (40%).

JLL · Jul 14, 2026 · full quote
Across the global economy, we’re beginning to see a new divide emerge between different models for talent and value creation. The companies seeing the greatest returns on AI are using it to amplify human expertise, accelerate innovation and create entirely new sources of value. A…

Joe Atkinson · Jun 15, 2026 · full quote

New roles and career paths

Supporters argue AI is already producing roles that were absent from recent org charts, including specialist, trainer, security, infrastructure and other AI-related positions, while AI-augmented work can command higher earnings. Many pair this with calls to build skills pipelines so more workers can move into these careers.

Virtually every major technology wave in history has ultimately created more opportunities than it destroyed. The internet gave rise to roles that simply didn’t exist in 1995. AI is doing the same thing right now. New roles like AI trainers, agent specialists, AI security experts…

Rajiv Kumar · Jun 11, 2026 · full quote
The workforce being built around the agentic enterprise will be larger, differently shaped, and concentrated around capabilities that did not exist on most org charts just a few years ago.

Box · Jul 1, 2026 · full quote
Additionally, the explosive growth of AI demand appears poised to create numerous jobs in its own field, as well as infrastructure-related fields.

Texas Workforce Investment Council · Jun 2026 · full quote
Complex AI-augmented work is driving higher earnings and new roles.

Upwork · Jul 14, 2026 · full quote
I believe programmes like this are crucial to ensuring the AI economy creates more opportunities for more young people, in every corner of the country. By combining practical experience with AI skills training, we can develop real pathways into high-quality careers, build a stron…

Darren Hardman · Jun 6, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Headcount cuts already visible

Critics cite survey and labor-market evidence that AI's employment effect has recently turned negative or is already showing up in layoffs, slower payroll growth, falling early-career hiring, and workforce reductions in sectors pursuing efficiency. They argue the harm is observable now, not just a future risk.

AI's employment impact has turned modestly negative, reversing the more positive picture in 2025. In contrast, the latest S&P Global Purchasing Managers' Index survey shows a global net impact of -5 percentage points over the past 12 months, with a further -2 points net impact fo…

S&P Global · Jul 10, 2026 · full quote
Our economists’ analysis shows a modest net drag on labor markets, with AI reducing monthly payroll growth by roughly 16,000 jobs in the past year and raising the unemployment rate by 0.1 percentage point.

Goldman Sachs Research · Apr 24, 2026 · full quote
Using detailed tabulations from matched employer-employee administrative data, I document evidence of an immediate, sizable, and persistent decrease in the level of early career (22-24 year old) hires following introduction of ChatGPT within the industry-state cells that are most…

Lee C. Tucker · Apr 2026 · full quote
Companies are already laying off workers citing AI, so we must understand how American workers are at risk.

Greg Casar · Jun 24, 2026 · full quote
Warehouses, call centres, transport, entry-level jobs in the professions and coding are all seeing vast reductions in the workforce in the aim of efficiency.

The Lord Bishop of Oxford · Jun 5, 2026 · full quote

Efficiency incentives reduce staff

Another argument is that productivity can simply mean getting the same output with fewer people. Opponents say managers under financial pressure, and investors expecting labor savings, may use partial automation as justification to shrink staff, especially in roles where young workers have traditionally entered the formal economy.

Productivity can just as easily mean businesses doing the same work with fewer people.

Hina Bokhari · Jul 16, 2026 · full quote
The threat is rarely that AI can do the full job of a skilled professional. It is that leadership under financial pressure will use partial automation as justification to cut the role.

Rose Luckin · May 11, 2026 · full quote
The financing for new models is coming from investors, and those investors are making a bet that the AI they're funding will be so good that employers can fire half their workers and replace them with AI, with the proceeds split between AI companies' customers, and the AI compani…

Cory Doctorow · Jun 23, 2026 · full quote
None of this diminishes the importance of large companies. Established firms remain essential for investment, supply chains, training and innovation partnerships. But they cannot tackle the employment challenge alone, particularly as automation is raising efficiency precisely by …

Vijay Eswaran · Jun 11, 2026 · full quote
AI will eliminate jobs. There should be no confusion about that. In history, when jobs were eliminated, new jobs were created. This time, however, it may take longer for new jobs to emerge. So there is going to be a gap.

Ram Charan · May 20, 2026 · full quote

General-purpose substitution

Some critics argue AI is unlike past tools because it is general-purpose or aimed at AGI, enabling substitution across a wide range of tasks and eventually even the new jobs created by the disruption. If AI can also perform the replacement jobs, they say, the usual compensating cycle of technological change may break down.

Good AI needs to complement humans, and this requires a redirection, because the current focus on AGI is, in all but name, an agenda for displacing humans from meaningful work.

Daron Acemoglu · Jul 15, 2026 · full quote
AI and humanoid robots break that logic because they are general-purpose. Yes, the disruption will create new jobs. The problem is that AI and robots will be able to do those new jobs too.

RethinkX · Jun 23, 2026 · full quote
This paper develops a political-economy model of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a technology that progressively substitutes living labor with machine-based productive systems. The model studies the transition from the first moment at which AGI becomes economically capab…

Zichen Song · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
So AI will create new jobs, and for a short and fortunate grace period it really will look like it is creating more than it destroys.

Adam Dorr · Jun 23, 2026 · full quote

Unequal transition and poorer work

A further concern is that even where new jobs emerge, they may not appear quickly enough or with comparable pay and security. These quotes warn of structural unemployment, transition costs, weaker income prospects for many workers, and a shift of wealth from labour to capital unless protections and support are strengthened.

Without these investments, AI risks widening inequality, displacing workers and shifting wealth from labour to capital rather than creating sustainable good jobs – those with fair compensation, worker autonomy and a reliable path to social dignity.

Independent International Scientific Panel on AI · Jul 1, 2026 · full quote
As AI takes over their current work, most workers will probably get poorer or have to take additional jobs to maintain their current pay. [...] AI will make most of us poorer and a few fabulously wealthy — unless its productivity gains are allocated fairly.

Robert Reich · 2026 · full quote
AI-driven job losses are likely to be partially offset over time, but with meaningful transition costs.

Allianz Research · Apr 30, 2026 · full quote
Reskilling and job creation may not keep pace with AI-driven job loss, especially as agentic AI expands into complex workflows. This raises the risk of structural unemployment in certain sectors.

Lim Kok-Tiong · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote
We also need the Government to introduce a raft of measures to manage AI-driven changes to work. Those measures should include an employment levy on companies that replace large numbers of workers with AI, training subsidies for displaced workers, redeployment programmes to move …

Neil Duncan-Jordan · Jul 8, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Outcome depends on choices

Several undecided voices argue that employment outcomes depend less on AI alone than on deployment choices and surrounding policy. In their view, investments in human capital, social protection, institutions and other forms of preparedness can determine whether the same technology creates jobs or destroys them.

Harnessing the benefits of GenAI requires more than access to technology. Productivity gains depend on investments in human capital and social protection. Ultimately, future labour market outcomes will depend less on exposure alone than on the policy choices to build the prepared…

Christian Viegelahn · Jul 8, 2026 · full quote
The future of work will not be determined by technology alone, but by the policies, institutions and social dialogue that guide it.

Gilbert F. Houngbo · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote
The pattern of “what technology does to employment” never existed. In some periods, technology created jobs; in others, it destroyed them. The difference was never in the technology itself. It’s in use. The same technology, deployed for different purposes, produces opposite effec…

Rodrigo Fernandes · May 26, 2026 · full quote
What’s missing at this inflection point is a framework that gets us beyond narrow debates or silver-bullet thinking, recognizing that AI’s impacts will be unevenly felt across industries, types of workers, and regions.

Xavier de Souza Briggs · Jun 29, 2026 · full quote
I think both outcomes are likely to occur depending on the industry.

Marc Rowan · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote

Too early to conclude

Another middle position says current evidence is incomplete and mixed: some highly exposed occupations or regions show slower growth or stress, but there is not yet decisive proof of large AI-driven job loss or of a net gain. These quotes call for better data and continued monitoring before drawing firm conclusions.

But of course, new jobs and new tasks are also going to be created. And that balance between the jobs going away and new jobs being created, we really don't know.

Neil Thompson · Jul 2, 2026 · full quote
The evidence is best read as an early indication of some modest slowing in employment growth in some highly exposed occupations, not proof of large AI-driven job loss.

Department of Employment and Workplace Relations · Jul 8, 2026 · full quote
Right now, we are not seeing evidence of large-scale AI-related layoffs in California's labor market. But we do see patterns in certain regions like the Bay Area, in certain tech-heavy sectors, and among highly AI-exposed workers with college degrees. It will be important to cont…

Ben Hyman · Jun 25, 2026 · full quote
First, on unemployment, half of all UK workers feel that they will lose their job to AI. From what I can see, there is very mixed evidence about that so far, beyond the field of software development.

Anneliese Dodds · Jul 8, 2026 · full quote
Workers should not have to guess how artificial intelligence is affecting their jobs or their futures. As I outlined in my report last year on AI's impact on American jobs, Congress needs reliable data to better understand these changes. We need to know where jobs are being lost,…

Valerie Foushee · Jun 24, 2026 · full quote

Disruption with new opportunities

Many nuanced quotes expect both disruption and opportunity, with effects varying across industries and worker groups. They describe AI as a potentially very large and fast-moving transformation that may create new roles while also posing acute risks to young and entry-level workers.

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 w…

We Must Act Now · Jul 13, 2026 · full quote
AI and related technologies will transform whole sectors of the economy. It will disrupt existing jobs, but also create new jobs. I should add that it will also be a major source of job creation.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam · Jun 9, 2026 · full quote
AI is going to reshape the world of work, with some jobs more impacted than others, but AI will also create new roles and opportunities.

Kanishka Narayan · Jun 19, 2026 · full quote
But AI can create and will create opportunities that we cannot yet fully imagine. Of course, it will, at the same time, bring about disruptions that we cannot fully foresee.

Tan See Leng · May 6, 2026 · full quote
While we await the outcome, the most alarming labour-market effect of artificial intelligence so far is that it is making too many young people unemployable.

Maria Demertzis · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote
By filling some of the lowest pay grades with AI, Gen Z workers will not only be left without jobs, but they won't have the experience to be able to progress into higher paying jobs, ultimately causing a major disruption across the talent pipeline.

Andrew McAfee · May 5, 2026 · full quote

Insights

Across stances, the quotes largely agree that AI will change work substantially; the disagreement is over the balance and timing of jobs lost versus jobs created.
Supportive quotes usually frame AI as automating tasks within jobs, while opposing quotes stress that employers may treat task automation as a reason to cut entire roles.
Concerns about transition recur on all sides, including among supporters who expect net job creation but still warn of disruption and the need for training and worker support.
Young, graduate, and entry-level workers appear repeatedly as a special point of concern, both in warnings about reduced hiring and in proposals to build new career pathways.
The sample spans governments, firms, economists, unions and international bodies, and those backgrounds often shape whether the emphasis falls on growth and adoption, or on risk, uncertainty and distribution.

Across the quotes, AI-driven change to work is treated as a given. The central dispute is whether complementarity, new demand and new occupations will outweigh layoffs and slower hiring, especially in the near to medium term and for vulnerable entry points into the labor market. Many participants therefore focus less on a fixed prediction than on how adoption strategies, skills investment and worker protections will shape the outcome.

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Richard Peterson
Behavioral economist and founder of MarketPsych, a firm analyzing market sentiment and investor psychology.

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I think AI will create more jobs, and I think that's what we're seeing.
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When a technology makes workers more productive, it makes their labor more valuable, not less, lowering costs, expanding what a firm can attempt, and creating demand for work nobody had imagined.
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Because we want AI to support and create good jobs, not replace them.
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Kevin Warsh
Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, commenting publicly on artificial intelligence and the economy.

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Artificial intelligence will create jobs in both the short and long term, though the medium-term impact on employment could be disruptive.
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Vincent Huguet
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As this digital revolution progresses, the job economy is changing, but the mantra that AI is taking our jobs is simply not correct.
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Despite concerns of AI-driven job losses, a new study from JLL finds that a majority of senior business leaders expect their workforces to grow (60%), not shrink (40%) – similarly, most expect AI to reinvent human roles (60%), rather than replace the...
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Most forward-thinking leaders aren't just buying technology; they are investing in their people. They are pursuing a strategy of human-machine enhancement to create additional roles, boost productivity and drive sustainable growth.
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The greatest value often comes from making expertise easier to access and apply, rather than attempting to replace it altogether.
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Complex AI-augmented work is driving higher earnings and new roles.
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AI delivers significant productivity gains by saving a few minutes for every employee—not by replacing jobs.
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Companies most able to use AI are seeing faster headcount growth than the least AI-exposed companies (52% vs 36%) and higher wage growth (24% vs 17%).
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The doomsday case rests on a flawed arithmetic: If AI can do 40 percent of a job’s tasks, then 40 percent of the work must go. But a job is not a to-do list of separable chores. Firms employ people for bundles of work held together by judgment, coord...
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Five years from now, I believe AI will create more jobs than it eliminates.
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Even as Artificial Intelligence displaces a significant number of roles in the United Kingdom, it’s clear the net-positive impact on the job market remains favorable.
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John Zerucelli
Canadian Secretary of State for Labour and Member of Parliament for Etobicoke North in 2026.

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Our community is home to businesses that are embracing new technologies to grow and stay competitive. By investing in innovation, we are helping local companies expand their capabilities, create good jobs, and contribute to a strong and resilient loc...
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Other technological disruptions, while displacing jobs, have ultimately led to more jobs through elasticity of demand.
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Canada’s success in the AI economy depends on the talent we develop today. Through the fifth phase of the CanCode program and our government’s $30 million investment, we will be equipping students and educators with the digital and AI skills needed t...
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CEO and co-founder of Taiv Inc., a Manitoba technology company using AI in digital advertising, in 2026.

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Thrilled to partner with PrairiesCan and see them continue to support tech and innovation in the province. Throughout Taiv's history, we have promised to create jobs in Manitoba and have since followed through; creating over 75 jobs since 2025. This ...
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Canadian Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada in 2026.

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AI for All means making sure businesses, workers and communities across the country can use these technologies to solve real problems and share in the benefits. Manitoba businesses are already finding practical ways to use artificial intelligence to ...
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They are not going to take away your jobs. They just leave more time instead of doing stupid things, doing some smart things.
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Through our work on industrial AI, including the Global Alliance on AI for Industry and Manufacturing, AIM Global in short, and our global network of Centers of Excellency, we help translate the promise of AI into practical solutions that create jobs...
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We do expect that ultimately there are going to be more than enough jobs created to reabsorb workers back into the labor market.
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White House AI and crypto czar

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AI will increase demand for knowledge workers, not decrease it.
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The workforce being built around the agentic enterprise will be larger, differently shaped, and concentrated around capabilities that did not exist on most org charts just a few years ago.
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Lors des révolutions technologiques précédentes, les emplois créés par la nouvelle technologie ont compensé ceux qui ont disparu, et le contenu des professions s'est transformé en profondeur.
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Dan Katz
Economist and author writing for the International Monetary Fund on AI and labor-market adjustment.

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This is likely to be the net impact of AI. By reducing the cost of analysis, prediction, communication, coordination, and—increasingly in its agentic form—action, AI makes a wide range of services cheaper and more scalable. This will eventually incre...
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Rechie Valdez
Canadian Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State for Small Business and Tourism in 2026.

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Canada’s economic success depends on our ability to develop and scale the technologies that are shaping the future. Investments in companies like Tulong help strengthen Canada’s AI ecosystem, support business growth and ensure the benefits of innovat...
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Gina Raimondo
U.S. Secretary of Commerce

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I believe AI will create new jobs and industries over time, but the transition could be disruptive, and it’s already underway. We shouldn’t fearmonger, but we can’t pretend our training and worker support systems are ready, either.
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Our belief is that AI will largely augment human capability and not replace it. Creativity, judgement, communication and collaboration become much more important, because they leverage the benefits of human capability rather than compete with technol...
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Tom Zehren
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AI will create jobs. In the next five years, it will create more jobs than it destroys.
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The companies that I know that have adopted AI the most are the ones that are hiring the most. And the companies, as a general rule, that are talking about doing layoffs because of AI are the ones adopting AI the least.
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The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 shows that technology, demographics and uncertainty are reshaping labour markets towards 2030. It estimates that 170 million jobs may be created, 92 million displaced and 39% of existing skill set...
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J. D. Vance
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I have not yet seen the evidence that you’re going to see widespread job destruction because of AI.
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Jeff Bezos
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AI is going to create a labour shortage because it’s going to make it possible for people to identify more problems.
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Ni Ying
Chief Executive Officer of Adecco Group China, writing on AI-driven workforce transformation.

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According to the World Economic Forum, 170 million new jobs will be created by 2030 – but 92 million will also be displaced, underlining the scale and urgency of this transition.
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Maryam Al Thani

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The AI-born economy is a redefinition of human work. The jobs that did not exist yesterday are not replacements for human effort. They are expressions of it, built for a world where machines handle the predictable and people handle everything else.
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Joe Atkinson
Global Chief AI Officer at PwC.

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Across the global economy, we’re beginning to see a new divide emerge between different models for talent and value creation. The companies seeing the greatest returns on AI are using it to amplify human expertise, accelerate innovation and create en...
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Rajiv Kumar
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Virtually every major technology wave in history has ultimately created more opportunities than it destroyed. The internet gave rise to roles that simply didn’t exist in 1995. AI is doing the same thing right now. New roles like AI trainers, agent sp...
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Mike Flynn
ITI senior vice president

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While AI is changing the workforce, current evidence indicates it is doing so by shifting and creating jobs, not replacing them.
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Kelly Loeffler
Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration and former U.S. Senator from Georgia.

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Artificial intelligence will fuel job creation on main streets across America.
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Alex Tabarrok
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The creation of Excel did not put accountants out of work. It actually further increased the demand for accountants. And I think the same is going to be true for AI.
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Tyler Cowen
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Most new jobs, in fact, will be things that very few individuals can think of in advance. But the market with wages and prices iterates with its own algorithms and solves that problem, creates new jobs.
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Peter Caputa
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I think people are way too worried about AI destroying jobs. I'm willing to wager $$$ that AI will be a net job creator, just like every other technology before it.
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Rachel Reeves
Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom.

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Today we are going further and faster to drive AI adoption, give workers and businesses the tools and skills they need, and harness AI to deliver secure, resilient growth across the country.
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Government of the United Kingdom
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By combining investment in skills and practical support for AI adoption, the UK is creating the conditions to drive growth, better jobs and opportunity across the country.
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Government of Canada
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These aren't isolated stories. Over 150,000 Canadian innovators employed by more than 3,500 Canadian companies are developing AI solutions that will build a stronger, more resilient economy, solve problems, serve people, and create good, high paying ...
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Keir Starmer
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And, today, I can announce our new AI jobs tool… That will help those out of work… Find the right jobs… Create their CVs… And get back into work.
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Piyush Goyal
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India need not be worried. This AI ghost will also cool down. Right now it is running its course, let it run. I have no objection. But AI will ultimately become a job creator for India.
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Mo Isap OBE
Chief Executive Officer of IN4 Group, quoted on AI skills and youth opportunity in 2026.

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It’s time to turn the tables. Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, at risk of falling out of the system at 16, should be placed on a pedestal and not be seen as a problem. AI and new technologies are a leveller. These are young people with na...
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Matt Prebble
Head of Accenture in the UK and Ireland, quoted on AI skills and youth employment in 2026.

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Too many young people across the UK are not currently in education or employment, often facing multiple barriers to getting into the labour market. At the same time, businesses need people with the skills to work in an increasingly digital and AI-dri...
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Katie Gallagher OBE
Managing Director of Manchester Digital and the UK government's AI Champion for the Digital and Technologies Sector in 2026.

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As AI reshapes entry-level work, we have a chance to lead by example and create better pathways for young people. That is why I want to establish an industry-led Early Careers Jobs Alliance to shape a positive future for entry-level roles in the Digi...
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Mike Clancy
General Secretary of Prospect, a UK trade union, quoted on shaping AI's impact on jobs in 2026.

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We have a short window of opportunity to shape the AI revolution so that it enhances and supports jobs, rather than destroying and undermining them, and it is right that government are bringing employers and unions together to think through these iss...
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Pat McFadden
UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, quoted on AI skills and youth employment in 2026.

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By equipping these young people with tech and AI skills, we are making sure that the opportunities created by this technological revolution are open to everyone.
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Darren Hardman
Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft UK and Ireland.

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I believe programmes like this are crucial to ensuring the AI economy creates more opportunities for more young people, in every corner of the country. By combining practical experience with AI skills training, we can develop real pathways into high-...
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Steve Hare
Chief Executive Officer of Sage.

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AI is creating some of the most exciting career opportunities in a generation and we need to ensure that young people from every background can access them. Through the AI Growth Zone, Sage is working with industry partners and government to open the...
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Josephine Teo
Singapore Minister for Digital Development and Information; former Minister for Manpower.

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Only about 3 in 10 firms have adopted AI currently. Among firms that have adopted AI, only a small minority – about 6% reported reduced headcount. More commonly, firms are redesigning jobs and creating new AI-related roles, indicating that AI is chan...
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Robin Gareiss
CEO and principal analyst at Metrigy, a technology research and advisory firm.

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Among those research participants that selected the option "both created and eliminated jobs," 66.3% say AI has created more jobs than it has eliminated.
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Ivan Sascha Sheehan
Interim dean of the University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs and international-affairs scholar.

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Looking past the projections and examining what's actually happening in the labor market, it's clear: AI is not destroying more jobs than it creates. Rather, AI is creating jobs at a rate that should fundamentally reshape how we think about this tech...
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Ivan Sascha Sheehan
Interim dean of the University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs and scholar of international affairs.

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Looking past the projections and examining what's actually happening in the labor market, it's clear: AI is not destroying more jobs than it creates. Rather, AI is creating jobs at a rate that should fundamentally reshape how we think about this tech...
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Texas Workforce Investment Council
Texas state workforce planning and advisory council

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Additionally, the explosive growth of AI demand appears poised to create numerous jobs in its own field, as well as infrastructure-related fields.
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Jensen Huang
Nvidia cofounder and CEO

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People talk about AI reducing jobs — complete nonsense. It’s causing more software engineers to be hired, and the reason for that is very simple. [...] If you can hire a software engineer and you could generate $9 trillion worth of productive work, w...
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Gerard Cunningham
Founder of Entourage AI; technology executive with mathematics, computer science, and operations research training.

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I believe that we will see many new jobs built around the three R's of AI jobs: Revealed, Reimagined and Reached.
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Tobias Lütke
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify.

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People think that there's not going to be enough jobs. The shape of companies is going to change absolutely, companies will be smaller, but there will be vastly more of them.
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Andrew MacDonald
President and Chief Operating Officer of Uber.

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AI will ultimately spur economic growth well above baseline projections, generating entirely new categories of employment that are impossible to anticipate today while also creating induced demand for labour across a rapidly expanding economy.
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Ingrid Tighe
President of the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center.

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Using and investing in this data has a ripple effect by ensuring we’re meeting the needs of employers and helping employees thrive in a modern and evolving economy.
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Ryan Hundt
Chief executive of Michigan Works! Association.

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Michigan Works! Agencies are ensuring Michiganders have the training they need to get and keep good-paying jobs, and that Michigan employers have the talent they need to compete.
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Brian Calley
President and CEO of the Small Business Association of Michigan; former lieutenant governor of Michigan.

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By providing small businesses with the support they need to adopt innovation and compete in a rapidly changing economy, we are helping them grow, create jobs and build stronger communities across our state.
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Susan Corbin
Director of the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity.

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The new data shows that most jobs are expected to evolve, not disappear, which makes training our workforce and ensuring adaptability essential to future success.
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Raj Subramaniam
President and CEO of FedEx, speaking on AI, logistics, and employment.

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AI will create jobs, not replace workers.
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Kaelyn Lowmaster
Director Analyst in the Gartner HR practice, researching the future of work and AI's impact on jobs

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AI is ultimately going to result in more job gains than losses, but in the process it’s going to break down millions of careers.
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Gartner
Research and advisory company

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Beginning in 2028, AI will create more jobs than it eliminates.
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Rohit Gupta
UK&I Managing Director at Cognizant, writing on AI and the future of work.

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AI is not eliminating entry-level roles, so much as reshaping them – and, in some cases, expanding who can participate.
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Kevin Hassett
Director of the U.S. National Economic Council; economist; former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers

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Companies which adopt AI tend to see rapid revenue growth and even employment growth.
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Evan Solomon
Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation; Liberal MP for Toronto Centre

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AI is not just a technology of the future. It is already helping Canadian companies solve real problems, improve services, create products and compete globally. But to build with AI, companies need access to compute power. Through the AI Compute Acce...
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Ruth C
Head of Vulnerability Management Group at the UK National Cyber Security Centre.

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We believe that AI models accelerate the skills of cyber security staff; they don’t replace them.
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Jasmin Lau
Singapore Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information.

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But AI is more than just a technological advancement that replaces jobs. At the same time, it is opening up entirely new ways of working, and new kinds of roles that did not exist before.
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Scott Kupor
Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management; technology investor and former Andreessen Horowitz managing partner.

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What we do know is that historical technological revolutions have delivered the good news we have seen above – significant net new job creation that ushered in eras of economic growth, productivity increases, and consumer surplus. So, to conclude oth...
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Helen Poitevin
Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst

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Long term, autonomous business will create more work for humans, not less. Lasting structural factors such as demographic decline and high-stakes, trust-dependent consumer moments will ensure human talent remains central to running, governing and sca...
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Matt Garman
Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AI taking away jobs? I actually see the exact inverse.
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George Hotz
Software engineer and entrepreneur known for work in autonomous driving and artificial intelligence.

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AI and immigration are fundamentally the same. There’s new people showing up, and hopefully everyone understands how and why immigration creates jobs. [...] There will be more to do than ever before.
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Seth Carpenter
Global Chief Economist and Head of Macro Research at Morgan Stanley.

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So far, the evidence looks like workers are producing more than firms are cutting back on labor.
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BSA | The Software Alliance
Software industry trade association

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By enabling secure, voluntary sharing of aggregated, anonymized workforce data, the bill can help businesses, researchers, and governments better understand AI deployment, productivity gains, and job creation.
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Fred Humphries
Corporate Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs at Microsoft.

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The framework established by this bill for aggregating and making comprehensive data available to businesses, academics and researchers, and government agencies is critical to better understanding AI deployment, productivity gains, and the creation o...
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Torsten Slok
Chief Economist at Apollo Global Management

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As AI makes many processes cheaper in finance, consulting and legal services, Jevons paradox suggests we should expect more demand and more jobs in those sectors, not fewer, see here.
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David Adams
Indiana Secretary of Commerce

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Our focus is human-centered; using AI to increase productivity, strengthen companies, and give workers better tools to do higher-value work. When businesses operate more efficiently and grow, that translates directly into higher wages, more opportuni...
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Mike Braun
Governor of Indiana

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Our goal is clear: grow wages, create more high-quality jobs, and position Indiana for long-term economic growth by making it the most AI-ready state in the nation. IN AI is about making sure all of our businesses – from Main Street to large organiza...
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Oregon Employment Department
State labor and workforce agency for Oregon, including its labor market research and projections publications.

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AI technologies have the potential to increase or decrease employment demand. Industries and occupations associated with the development, implementation, and underlying infrastructure of AI technologies are largely expected to see employment demand i...
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Caoimhe Archibald
Northern Ireland Minister for the Economy.

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Artificial Intelligence presents a significant opportunity to improve productivity, create good jobs and strengthen our competitiveness, but it must be adopted in a way that is responsible and inclusive.
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Strauss Zelnick
Chairman and CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software.

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No, they won't be out of work. They'll be doing higher-quality work.
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Kashyap Kompella
AI industry analyst, advisor, and founder of RPA2AI Research.

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AI is already creating substantial new work in engineering, infrastructure, governance and roles that barely had names a few years ago. It is transforming far more jobs than it is eliminating, and is leaning toward more employment in technology, not ...
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Caoimhe Archibald
Economy Minister for Northern Ireland.

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AI has the potential to transform our economy by helping to address long-standing productivity challenges, create high-value jobs and drive innovation across all sectors.
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Nick Maggiulli
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This technological shift will create many new roles and increase demand within existing ones.
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Ryan Birbal
Senior vice president for public policy at HR Policy Association; testified to Congress on workplace AI in 2026.

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The path forward requires balance. AI should not be viewed solely as a cost-cutting mechanism, but as a catalyst for innovation, workforce development, and long-term value creation. When deployed to augment—rather than replace—human capability, AI ca...
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Rachel U. Greszler
Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

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AI holds enormous promise for improving productivity, expanding opportunity, and enhancing the quality of work. Like past technological innovations—from the Industrial Revolution to the rise of computing—AI has the potential to complement human labor...
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Omar Abbosh
Chief Executive Officer of Pearson; former President of Microsoft Industry Solutions and former Accenture executive.

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Hisayuki Idekoba
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AI is transforming work, not eliminating it.
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Marc Andreessen
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The 'AI job loss' narratives are all fake. AI = massive ramp in productivity = massive ramp in demand = massive jobs boom.
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Greg Emerson
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What we're actually seeing is that full-scale replacement of jobs is much, much slower because the implementation is harder. Whereas the augmentation and the reshaping of jobs is happening much, much faster.
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Australian Government
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This means using AI to help close service gaps in health, disability and aged care, improve education and employment outcomes, and create secure, well-paid jobs in future industries.
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Tan Kiat How
Singapore Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information.

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The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report projects that while AI may displace 92 million jobs, it is expected to create around 170 million new ones. This amounts to a net gain of 78 million roles that don't yet fully exist today.
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Jay Bhatty
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AI will actually generate more jobs than it eliminates. I’m not trying to sugarcoat the issue and say no jobs will be lost. But over time, I predict that AI will be a net job creator.
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Keith Sonderling
Deputy Secretary of Labor

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This initiative will help demystify AI for American workers. We are seeing AI create new jobs, new levels of productivity, and new forms of entrepreneurship, and we want to make sure all Americans have the skills to share in that prosperity.
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Christopher Pissarides
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Some jobs will be lost. Most jobs will transition to doing something else. If we do it properly, there isn't going to be any mass unemployment.
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Joachim Nagel
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Past technological upheavals show that generally, more jobs were created than were lost.
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Mike Rounds
U.S. Senator from South Dakota.

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America’s workforce must be equipped to lead the transformation of the economy happening due to AI. This commission would help keep America ahead of our global competitors and keep America prosperous and innovative.
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Tim Walsh
Chair and CEO of KPMG LLP.

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55% expect to increase hiring in 2026 as a direct result of AI, while 36% expect no change.
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Wang Xiaoping
Minister of Human Resources and Social Security of the People's Republic of China.

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Employment potential will be unleashed in sectors such as digital economy, high-end manufacturing and modern services.
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Shannon Miedema
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Today’s announcement highlights the importance of supporting the people and organizations creating good jobs and contributing to vibrant communities across Atlantic Canada.
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Sean Fraser
Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General; Liberal MP for Central Nova

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Canada can help lead this AI shift, and giving small and medium-sized businesses the means to adapt to AI can further boost regional economies and national productivity. By supporting 40 projects across Atlantic Canada, we’re helping businesses adopt...
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Neeti Mehta Shukla
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The 2025 World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report states that while 92 million jobs might be eliminated by 2030, 170 million new roles will be created because of AI, resulting in a net gain of 78 million.
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Julie Sweet
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Companies must commit to creating sustained entry-level jobs making economic sense.
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Abdullah Asiri
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AI will replace tasks but not roles.
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Mukesh Ambani
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I see AI as a modern-day Akshaya Patra — the legendary vessel in Mahabharata that provided endless nourishment to all. Likewise, AI offers limitless augmentation in knowledge, efficiency and productivity. [...] Fourth — We will prove that AI does not...
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National Association of Artificial Intelligence Practitioners
Nigerian professional association for artificial-intelligence practitioners.

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The National Association of Artificial Intelligence Practitioners ... said the technology will create more employment opportunities rather than render Nigerians jobless.
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Jay Puri
Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at NVIDIA.

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AI is a very powerful force and, like every other technological disruption we have had, it will have an impact. Some jobs will be lost but new ones will be created.
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Nigerian professional association focused on artificial intelligence practitioners and AI development.

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The technology will create more employment opportunities rather than render Nigerians jobless.
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Eyitope Ogunbodede
President of the National Association of Artificial Intelligence Practitioners (NAAIP) in Nigeria.

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AI is creating more jobs. For those who move with AI and are conversant with what is going on, they will continue to retain their job.
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Ajay Kumar Sood
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Some jobs will go out of place, especially at the lower end, but a large number of jobs will be created.
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Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India

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History has shown that work does not disappear due to technology. Its nature changes and new types of jobs are created. While some jobs may be redefined, digital transformation will also add new tech jobs to India's economy.
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Vineet Nayar
Founder-chairman of Sampark Foundation and former chief executive officer of HCL Technologies.

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While 50 per cent of current jobs will go because of AI, same percentage, which is 50%, more jobs will also be created, which would need skilled manpower to handle AI.
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Michael Barr
Federal Reserve Governor; former U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions; law professor at the University of Michigan

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Over the long term, the labor market would adjust in ways that create new jobs and augment the productivity of existing jobs, boosting real wages.
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Kelli Vallieres
Chief Workforce Officer of Connecticut.

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TTA 3.0 represents a strategic step forward in equipping students and workers with the AI skills that employers across our state demand.
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S. Krishnan
Secretary of India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

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Do not expect that much impact of AI on jobs, many more other jobs will be created because of AI.
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Anurag Mairal
Adjunct Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, speaking on AI and healthcare employment.

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“AI’s potential [is] as a net job creator, particularly in expanding access and enabling new roles in community-based healthcare delivery.”
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer
U.S. Secretary of Labor

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The Department of Labor is committed to making sure all American workers are able to share in the prosperity that AI will create for our economy.
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Fabian Stephany
Assistant Professor for Artificial Intelligence and Work at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

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Rather than eroding employment, AI is restructuring the value of skills. And so the key economic challenge of AI is not job loss, but skill diffusion.
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Liz Kendall
UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology; Labour MP for Leicester West

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AI has huge potential to create more good jobs. We’re seeing this already through the 15,000 jobs being created in our AI Growth Zones, and through the success of brilliant British companies like Sage, Wayve and Graphcore.
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Bradford J. Kelley
Employment attorney and former EEOC and Department of Labor official; testified to Congress on workplace AI in 2026.

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I can state unequivocally that AI is empowering workers in meaningful ways. For example, many employees already rely on AI-powered applications on their smartphones to boost productivity and streamline tasks, which demonstrably improves their work-li...
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Rick Allen
U.S. Representative from Georgia; chairman of the House Education and Workforce HELP Subcommittee

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The bottom line is that AI can create opportunity without compromising fairness or safety.
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David J. Walton
Partner at Fisher Phillips and co-chair of the firm's Artificial Intelligence Team; testified to Congress on workplace AI in 2026.

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Second, historical evidence and economic theory suggest AI will likely increase total employment despite displacing workers from specific tasks. This pattern reflects an economic theory called Jevons’ Paradox. Under this theory, AI makes knowledge wo...
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Naomi Weir
Technology and Innovation Director at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

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AI presents a major opportunity to raise productivity, accelerate growth and create good jobs across the UK.
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Saadia Zahidi
Managing Director at the World Economic Forum, writing on AI and the future of work.

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The World Economic Forum is optimistic that job creation will outpace job losses in the near term. However, this labor market transformation will be complex and challenging.
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C. Vijayakumar
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of HCLTech

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Other analysis suggests AI will create more jobs than it displaces, but only if companies invest deliberately in people and redesign work, rather than simply layering technology onto old structures.
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Abhijit Dubey
Chief Executive Officer of NTT DATA, a global IT services and consulting company.

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In any tech transition, you lose one, you generate one-to-two.
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Prasanna Gopalkrishnan
Chief Product & AI Officer at ADP.

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The future of work depends less on AI replacing people and more on people using AI to amplify the potential of humans and their contributions.
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Bridget Phillipson
UK Secretary of State for Education and Labour MP

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AI will back our teachers, but never remove them.
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Dan Shapero
Chief Operating Officer at LinkedIn

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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 Ann...
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Vlad Tenev
Co-founder and CEO of Robinhood Markets, speaking publicly on artificial intelligence and the future of work.

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AI will lead to an explosion of not just new jobs, but new job families.
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Chaya Nayak
Head of policy partnerships at OpenAI; testified to Congress on AI and work in 2026.

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We believe AI will make workers more productive and unlock more opportunity for more people than any technology in history. It can help companies operate more effectively, give individuals the ability to turn ideas into income, and contribute to the ...
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J. P. Gownder
Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester, researching the future of work and artificial intelligence.

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We may not be heading for an imminent AI job apocalypse, but how organizations handle AI today will define more than just their future success. To navigate the complexity around the human and AI era, leaders must prioritize governance and invest in t...
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State of Missouri
U.S. state government of Missouri, including statewide executive orders and administrative policy.

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the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence across all economic sectors necessitates a proactive strategy to equip Missouri's current and future workforce with the necessary technological skills to remain competitive and ensure that Missourians are...
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Robin Li
Co-founder and CEO of Baidu, a Chinese technology company focused on artificial intelligence.

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In the longer term, I think there's a consensus that new technology will create a lot more job opportunities for people.
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Tony Roth
Chief Investment Officer of Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc.

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In our view, AI is a transformative technology that ultimately will create more jobs than it destroys, but there is mounting evidence that its impact thus far has been negative, especially in highly exposed jobs and for those early in their careers.
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Society for Human Resource Management
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AI adoption has led to slight job displacement (cited by 7%), some new jobs or roles (24%), shifts in workers' job responsibilities (39%), and frequent upskilling or reskilling opportunities for employees (57%).
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Aaron Levie
Co-founder and CEO of Box; cloud software entrepreneur and prominent AI commentator

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Why will AI create more jobs in plenty of industries? It's because we're going to use AI to accelerate output in one area, and then eventually you run into a new bottleneck somewhere else in the process that still requires humans.
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Amitabh Kant
India's G20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO

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No technology ever leads to lost jobs. It creates new jobs, but of a different kind.
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Scott Galloway
NYU Stern marketing professor and author

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I'm an AI optimist. I think it's going to create more jobs than it destroys.
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Mark Cuban
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They were the original white collar displacements. New companies with new jobs will come from AI and increase TOTAL employment.
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N. R. Narayana Murthy
Infosys co-founder

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This whole fear that technology will take away jobs is not right. It will create a different kind of job.
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K. Krithivasan
TCS CEO

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Will we have fewer people because of the rise of these traditional GenAI technologies? Our belief is not so, and we will have more people.
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Heidi Messer
Collective[i] cofounder and chairperson

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I think the argument that there will be net fewer jobs at the end of this current technological revolution is not supported by historical precedent.
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Arvind Krishna
IBM chairman and CEO

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you're going to get more work, which means you're going to need more people. [...] I fundamentally believe we'll get more jobs.
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John Hawksworth
PwC chief economist

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Our analysis suggests the same will be true of AI [...] While some jobs may be displaced, many more are likely to be created
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Milton Ezrati
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It will instead likely create more new jobs than it destroys and will create occupations that didn’t exist before.
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Kevin Kelly
Wired founding editor; futurist

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automation, including this AI, will create more jobs than it destroys. It will take a lot of jobs away. [...] So there will be jobs.
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Gary Kreps
Professor, health and risk communication

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The use of AI systems will supplement human systems and not replace them [...] generating more jobs in the future.
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John Wooten
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I don’t believe it will achieve a higher displacement over creation ratio by 2025. [...] have surprisingly led to more job creation [...].
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Thomas Haigh
Information technology historian

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My position is basically historical. [...] technological unemployment has never been a long-term reality. [...] unlikely that new productivity technologies will destroy more jobs than they create.
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Vint Cerf
Internet pioneer; Google Chief Internet Evangelist

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Historically, technology has created more jobs than it destroys and there is no reason to think otherwise in this case.
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Robert D. Atkinson
Innovation economist; ITIF president

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It’s time to take a deep breath and stop panicking [...] for jobs. No, AI won’t destroy more jobs than it creates.
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Baroness Jacqui Smith
UK Minister for Skills and former UK Home Secretary.

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The UK has a proud history of embracing new technologies and this government is committed to ensuring the benefits of AI are felt right across the country. AI has the potential to transform our economy, boost productivity and create real opportunitie...
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Lisa Cook
Federal Reserve Governor

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Undoubtedly, AI will usher in new tasks and occupations, many of which are impossible for us to conceive of today. [...] In a recent speech, I discussed the possibility that job displacement may precede job creation such that the unemployment rate ma...
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Kinsey Fabrizio
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Yes. I think whole new industries will be developed because of AI and a tremendous amount of new jobs in the workforce will be created.
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Svenja Gudell
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So far, there is little evidence of widespread AI-driven job losses. If anything, companies are still hiring aggressively around AI implementation, infrastructure, and deployment.
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Ravi Kumar S.
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There was a little bit of fearmongering from reading about the fact that there’s going to be a collapse of jobs. I think there will be more jobs.
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David Solomon
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One camp sees a “job apocalypse” and mass unemployment ahead; the other sees a great leap forward for society. Put me in the second camp — with a few caveats.
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Walter Isaacson
Tulane University professor, biographer, former CNN chairman and Time editor

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The main place that you see job loss due to AI is in the press releases that companies are putting out
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Hari Shetty
Chief Strategist and Technology Officer at Wipro; technology executive speaking on AI and employment.

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When you look at the entire gamut of things that's possible, it really appears like a large opportunity for us.
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Andrew Ng
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There will be no AI jobpocalypse. [...] While there are examples of AI taking away jobs, the trends strongly suggest the net job creation is vastly greater than the job destruction — just like earlier waves of technology. [...] There will be an AI jo...
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David George
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The claim that AI will produce economy-wide, permanent unemployment is unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history. To the contrary, productivity gains should increase demand for labor, because labor becomes more valuable.
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Of course AI will absolutely eliminate some tasks and compress some roles, but the claim that AI will produce economy-wide, permanent unemployment is unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history. [...] The future is cheaper intelligence, bigg...
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Carl Benedikt Frey
Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute; Director of the Future of Work Program at the Oxford Martin School; author of The Technology Trap and How Progress Ends

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While generative AI has expanded the scope for automation, its primary effect is democratizing expertise, enabling more people to perform knowledge work with less training. [...] AI is positioned to be a massive engine for job creation rather than a ...
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World Economic Forum
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By 2030, 170 million new jobs are projected to be created globally while 92 million roles are likely to be displaced, resulting in a net increase of 78 million jobs. Shifting global trends in technology, economy, demographics and the green transition...
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John Carney
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The data says that we created way more jobs than were eliminated [...] AI’s going to change all of our jobs — mostly in a positive way.
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Vinod Khosla
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I think it's somewhat unlikely that more jobs will be destroyed than created for the first time.
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Brad Templeton
EFF chair emeritus; tech entrepreneur

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They will displace many jobs but the rate of job creation will outpace this. Why is uncertain—it always has [...].
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JP Rangaswami
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Some classes of jobs will be handed over to the ‘immigrants’ of AI and Robotics, but more will have been generated.
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Increasing use of information technology (IT), including artificial intelligence (AI), will boost demand for workers in some occupations over the 2024–34 decade, while other occupations may see their numbers decrease.
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Scott Beale
Chief executive officer of ISC2, a nonprofit association for cybersecurity professionals.

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AI is not replacing cybersecurity professionals; it is changing what the profession requires of them. As AI takes on more repetitive tasks, as well as performing some complex cybersecurity analysis at speed and scale, cybersecurity roles are shifting...
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Dara Treseder
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AI is raising the floor for everyone, but it is human ingenuity that will vault the ceiling. That is why access matters. The next generation already has the curiosity, creativity, and ambition to solve real problems. What too many young people still ...
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We Must Act Now
Named public statement on AI’s economic transformation, issued in July 2026.

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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 larg...
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Stanford University research lab focused on the digital economy.

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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 larg...
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James Frith
UK Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office.

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AI has the potential to enhance job roles and the performance of each of us at work, but it is necessary and reasonable, as my hon. Friend the Member for Poole pointed out, to distinguish the jobs that are most at risk—those least likely to be enhanc...
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Damian Hinds
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Labour market effects are probably what we as politicians worry about the most, along with all the other implications, like the consequences for income distribution, intergenerational fairness and so many other aspects. People already say that AI has...
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Anneliese Dodds
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First, on unemployment, half of all UK workers feel that they will lose their job to AI. From what I can see, there is very mixed evidence about that so far, beyond the field of software development.
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Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Australian Government department responsible for employment and workplace-relations policy.

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The evidence is best read as an early indication of some modest slowing in employment growth in some highly exposed occupations, not proof of large AI-driven job loss.
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Christian Viegelahn
Economist and lead author of the International Labour Organization's 2026 ASEAN report on generative AI and employment.

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Harnessing the benefits of GenAI requires more than access to technology. Productivity gains depend on investments in human capital and social protection. Ultimately, future labour market outcomes will depend less on exposure alone than on the policy...
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Marc Rowan
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I think both outcomes are likely to occur depending on the industry.
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Fabio D'Orlando
Economist and author researching artificial intelligence and unemployment.

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Despite its low probability, full unemployment deserves serious theoretical consideration and detailed analysis by economists.
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Loreto Bravo
Director of the Data Science Institute at Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile.

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The report does not conclude that AI will lead to mass unemployment. The evidence is more nuanced. Labor market effects are better understood through tasks, new work creation, and job quality.
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Neil Thompson
MIT research scientist studying the economics of computing, innovation, and artificial intelligence.

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But of course, new jobs and new tasks are also going to be created. And that balance between the jobs going away and new jobs being created, we really don't know.
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Ned Lamont
Governor of Connecticut

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I believe AI will create new jobs and industries over time, but the transition could be disruptive, and it’s already underway.
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Xavier de Souza Briggs
Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, researching economic mobility, cities, and AI's workforce impacts.

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What’s missing at this inflection point is a framework that gets us beyond narrow debates or silver-bullet thinking, recognizing that AI’s impacts will be unevenly felt across industries, types of workers, and regions.
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Ben Hyman
Senior Researcher at the California Policy Lab studying AI and labor markets

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Right now, we are not seeing evidence of large-scale AI-related layoffs in California's labor market. But we do see patterns in certain regions like the Bay Area, in certain tech-heavy sectors, and among highly AI-exposed workers with college degrees...
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Michael Kleinman
Head of U.S. Policy at the Future of Life Institute; former AI policy staff at Meta and Amnesty International USA

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Representative Foushee's AI Workforce Impact Study Act of 2026 is an important step toward understanding how AI is reshaping work and America's economy. Our data on AI's effects is fragmented and incomplete but this bill will help ensure that future ...
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Valerie Foushee
U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district; sponsor of the Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act

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Workers should not have to guess how artificial intelligence is affecting their jobs or their futures. As I outlined in my report last year on AI's impact on American jobs, Congress needs reliable data to better understand these changes. We need to k...
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Kanishka Narayan
UK Minister for AI and Online Safety; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

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AI is going to reshape the world of work, with some jobs more impacted than others, but AI will also create new roles and opportunities.
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Maria Demertzis
Economist and senior fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel; writes on AI and labor markets.

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While we await the outcome, the most alarming labour-market effect of artificial intelligence so far is that it is making too many young people unemployable.
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Brad Smith
Microsoft vice chair and president

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AI likely will be one of the most important general purpose technologies of the next quarter century. And like previous general purpose technologies, AI will displace some jobs, even as it creates others and changes many of the ways we currently work...
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam
President of Singapore; former Deputy Prime Minister and economist.

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AI and related technologies will transform whole sectors of the economy. It will disrupt existing jobs, but also create new jobs. I should add that it will also be a major source of job creation.
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Lord Nagaraju
British Labour life peer, technology consultant, and adviser on AI policy.

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The Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that around 40% of UK occupations are exposed to AI, with most likely to be complemented rather than replaced.
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Baroness Fall
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We hear business leaders speaking about the opportunities for improving productivity, although they do not really know exactly how, or whether AI will give way to new and unknown jobs.
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Gilbert F. Houngbo
Director-General of the International Labour Organization since 2022; former Prime Minister of Togo.

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The future of work will not be determined by technology alone, but by the policies, institutions and social dialogue that guide it.
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Rodrigo Fernandes
Researcher at the Christensen Institute writing on innovation, technology, and the future of work.

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The pattern of “what technology does to employment” never existed. In some periods, technology created jobs; in others, it destroyed them. The difference was never in the technology itself. It’s in use. The same technology, deployed for different pur...
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Georges Elhedery
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We all know generative AI will destroy certain jobs and will create new jobs.
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Catherine Mann
External member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee.

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On AI, it is interesting that across the US, the UK, Germany and Australia, and a variety of research on each of those elements, 90% of the sources, when you ask firms, say there is no impact. It may be that the manifestation is, as the deputy govern...
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Swati Dhingra
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I think the last point you raised about youth unemployment and the effect of AI is really important. From what the staff have shown us, they did some really good analysis showing that youth unemployment seems to be rising globally. [...] But it is mu...
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Andrew Bailey
Governor of the Bank of England.

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First, it can destroy jobs, or in other words, remove jobs. An example of that is that if you create a chatbot to speak to customers, then you will reduce customer service staff. It can create new jobs. An example of that is data scientists. If you v...
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Adam Pickett
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For now, we think some of the worst-case scenarios are probably being undercut by reasonably slow rollout, but also we would beg the question as to whether the technology can be augmenting rather than purely destructive. So far, there's some evidence...
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Pope Leo XIV
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In some contexts, there is a legitimate fear of a significant and rapid contraction in available jobs that would create a chain reaction deeply impacting families, young people and local economies.
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Michelle Alexopoulos
External Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada and economist specializing in labour markets, productivity, and technological change.

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But based on the evidence so far, AI has not led to large-scale job losses. It is transforming work tasks, not replacing people.
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Tan See Leng
Singapore Minister for Manpower; delivered a 2026 parliamentary speech on AI and jobs.

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But AI can create and will create opportunities that we cannot yet fully imagine. Of course, it will, at the same time, bring about disruptions that we cannot fully foresee.
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Andrew McAfee
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By filling some of the lowest pay grades with AI, Gen Z workers will not only be left without jobs, but they won't have the experience to be able to progress into higher paying jobs, ultimately causing a major disruption across the talent pipeline.
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Lawrence Wong
Prime Minister of Singapore.

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But this I can promise you: as our economy transforms, we will create new and better jobs. We may not be able to protect every job. But we will protect every worker.
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Mark Warner
U.S. Senator from Virginia; former Governor of Virginia; Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee

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As AI is being developed, deployed, and integrated across industries, we're already seeing it have a measurable effect on the U.S. workforce, and we know that its impact is only going to grow. It's critical that everyone has access to accurate and ti...
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Chan Park
Head of U.S. and Canada Policy and Partnerships at OpenAI

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AI is already changing the way people work, learn, and build businesses. This bipartisan bill would improve the public data system to help give policymakers, educators, workers, and employers a clearer, privacy-preserving picture of how AI is actuall...
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Joshua New
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We know AI is beginning to transform work, but we don't have enough data to understand how. And we certainly don't have what we need to determine the right responses as the situation rapidly evolves. The Workforce Transparency Act is a step in the ri...
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OpenAI
Artificial intelligence research and deployment company.

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AI does not determine one inevitable future of work. Technical capability matters, but so do institutions, consumer demand, business decisions, regulation, and the enduring value of human participation.
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Teddy Tawil
Researcher in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Technology and International Affairs Program, writing on AI and the future of work.

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AI could hollow out jobs, reshape them gradually, create entirely new ones—or do all three at once. The case for starting to act now doesn’t depend on knowing which.
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Aravind Srinivas
CEO and co-founder of Perplexity AI

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If it pays for your needs for a year or multiple years and lets you have a high-quality life and good work-life balance, and true feeling of agency and ownership and passion to get your ideas out there, I think that is—even if there is temporary job ...
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Nuno Cunha
Senior Specialist in Labour Market Institutions at the International Labour Organization.

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The outcomes of the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace can be both positive or negative and hinge on the purpose, design and control of such technology.
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Vivek Kaul
Indian journalist and author writing on economics and public affairs.

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The simplistic answer to the question whether AI will destroy jobs is yes because that’s what increasing productivity means – fewer people are needed to carry out an economically value adding activity. But the actual answer is quite complicated.
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Chuck Schumer
U.S. Senate Majority Leader

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AI will create new jobs we cannot even comprehend of today.
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Charles Towers-Clark
Author and organizational-change consultant writing about artificial intelligence and work.

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The question "will AI destroy jobs?" is the wrong question. It already has and will continue to do so. The more important question is whether the speed of human choices, organizational adaptation and policy response can match the speed of AI adoption...
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Pascual Restrepo
Yale economist; Associate Professor studying automation, AI, and labor markets; frequent collaborator with Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu

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A lot of these claims are premature. Many of the people making them have an interest in selling a product, so you have to take them with a grain of salt.
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Henri Pierre-Jacques II
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The honest answer is that we do not know yet, but there are signals forming on both sides.
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Jed Kolko
Senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; labor economist

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the evidence on how AI is affecting the labor market today is inconclusive, and claims about harmful impacts on particular groups of workers are premature.
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Janine Berg
Senior economist in the International Labour Organization Research Department.

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The impact of generative AI on women’s jobs is not predetermined. With the right policies, social dialogue and gender-responsive design, we can avert reinforcing existing discrimination.
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Pierre Yared
Economist and acting chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

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AI can either be groundbreaking innovation that increases production, increases income and expenditure, or it can be an innovation that end up not delivering on its promise.
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Andy Jassy
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I do believe that a lot of the jobs that we've thrown human beings at for the last 20 or 30 years, you won't need as many human beings doing those same jobs. [...] I also think there are going to be other jobs created, and that has always happened in...
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Ministry of Manpower (Singapore)
Singapore government ministry responsible for workforce, employment, and labor policy.

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So far, Singapore’s labour market remains resilient amid concerns over AI driven job losses.
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Juan Gabriel Rodríguez
Professor of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid, researching automation, artificial intelligence, wages, and employment.

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This is the most important unknown. Some studies argue that employment is increasing, while others suggest it’s falling; there’s no consensus among experts.
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Juan Gabriel Rodríguez
Professor of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid, researching automation, AI, and wage inequality.

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We can’t know whether the most alarmist scenarios will come to pass, but we should be prepared in case they do.
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Bharat Chandar
Researcher at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab who studies AI exposure, adoption, and labor-market outcomes.

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Research shows a clear distinction between AI exposure and AI adoption. Jobs that are more exposed to AI have seen a significant decline in employment for young workers, while firm-level adoption shows mixed effects. This gap highlights the need for ...
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Hector de Revoire
Director of Responsible AI Public Policy at Microsoft, speaking on AI’s employment impacts at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

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Most of the evidence we currently have on AI’s employment impact comes from a few countries, particularly the United States. In many other regions, including emerging economies, the data simply does not yet exist, making it difficult to draw firm con...
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Pamela Mishkin
Researcher at OpenAI who spoke on workforce resilience and AI-driven labor transitions at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

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Resilience is not about predicting a single future, but about planning for multiple possible scenarios. Waiting for perfect usage data before acting risks being too late, especially when it comes to supporting workers through difficult transitions. P...
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Sangeeta Gupta
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There is a lot of genuine concern around this theme, and I don’t want to underestimate this impact. But, from an Indian lens, emphasis is on re-skilling programs and as AI becomes much more mainstream, you will also see newer job roles coming up.
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Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

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This will create more demand for services, and increase employment and wages among low-skilled workers.
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Stijn Broecke
Senior economist at the OECD, writing on AI, skills, and labor markets.

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In these jobs, AI tends to complement rather than replace employees’ work and increase demand for higher-level skills.
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Chuck Robbins
Chair and chief executive officer of Cisco.

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Although AI will create new opportunities, it will also be responsible for 'carnage along the way' [...] some roles will be eliminated entirely, and others reshaped.
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Statistics Canada
Canada’s national statistical office and producer of official economic and social statistics.

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From November 2022—when generative AI applications started gaining traction following the mass availability of ChatGPT—to December 2025, employment generally grew regardless of potential occupational exposure to and complementarity with AI.
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
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The available evidence does not yet provide clear answers to many of the questions that matter most for policy.
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Philippe Aghion
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There will definitely be some job losses from AI. However, remember that AI will create jobs as well as destroy them, not least because it makes it easier for people to come up with new ideas.
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Cloud content-management company publishing enterprise AI workforce research.

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When asked about the new roles created as a result of AI adoption, the most common categories form a recognizable cluster.
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Théodore Renault
Economist and author of an IMF analysis of AI's impact on Finland's labour market.

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While most Finns will benefit from AI adoption, one-fifth of the workforce is at risk of job displacement.
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Jérôme Rave
Partner at Inetum Consulting, writing on artificial intelligence and the future of work.

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It’s a debate that goes in circles and is framed the wrong way. The job of a data scientist didn’t exist in 2013, and in my opinion, in three years, it won’t exist anymore. The same goes for consultants: in the 1960s and ’70s, there were experts, and...
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Pete Brown
PwC Global Workforce Leader

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The traditional relationship between experience and expertise is changing. AI is removing some of the routine work that once acted as an apprenticeship, while increasing demand for judgement, leadership and adaptability much earlier in careers.
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Baroness Lloyd of Effra
UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State who responded to the House of Lords AI debate on June 5, 2026.

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These changes are already reshaping the nature of work by automating routine tasks, augmenting professional roles and creating entirely new forms of economic activity.
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South African Department of Communications and Digital Technologies
South African government department responsible for national communications and digital policy.

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“AI for inclusive economic growth, job creation, cost reduction, and a developing Africa.”
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Antonio de la Torre Diaz
Head of Corporate Strategy and Optimization at Repsol.

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This is a new challenge for the energy industry – which is generating more specialized, but also global, job profiles in order to reach that goal.
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Cyril Perducat
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Rockwell Automation.

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This allows people to spend less time on repetitive tasks that lead to disengagement or injury, and focus on more valuable supervisory and improvement activities.
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Dante Disparte
Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle Internet Financial.

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On the one hand this trend can free up human capacity for higher and greater use. On the other hand, it will make the already often out-of-reach ladder of economic mobility harder to grasp, especially for entry-level workers, for whom frontline servi...
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Jamie Dimon
Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase

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Technology always creates new jobs. The question is going to be if it happens too fast, somehow, people are adopting it too fast and jobs are being lost – middle-class jobs before they could be retrained to replace.
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Tony Bates
Chairman and CEO of Genesys, a customer-experience software company.

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Some CEOs are openly discussing workforce reductions. Others are talking about hiring more because AI will help their organization move faster and tackle bigger opportunities. But the truth is, nobody really knows yet how all of this will play out.
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Vivienne Ming
Neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author focused on the future of work and artificial intelligence.

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AI is now disrupting multiple sectors simultaneously, faster than any institution can respond. Neither our education system nor our labor policies are building the foundational human capital that AI-era work actually requires.
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Lord Markham
Conservative member of the UK House of Lords; supports strong AI safety monitoring, alignment checks, and kill-switch research.

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Technological progress did not simply replace jobs; it created entirely new forms of prosperity and human endeavour. Therefore, when the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Oxford asks what jobs AI will destroy, and rightly expresses concern over th...
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Gan Kim Yong
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry of Singapore.

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Growth remains essential. But in an age of AI and automation, growth may no longer generate jobs in the same way as before. More can be done with fewer workers.
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Sinwon Park
International Labour Organization Country Director for Viet Nam.

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Viet Nam has a significant opportunity to harness generative AI as a driver of productivity and decent work. However, the benefits and risks will not be evenly distributed, with women facing higher levels of exposure than men. Getting this transition...
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European Central Bank
EU central bank and research publisher

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AI is thus a general-purpose technology that can automate work in virtually every occupation. It stands in contrast to other technologies such as computerisation and industrial robotics, which only allow a limited set of tasks to be automated by impl...
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Office for National Statistics
United Kingdom’s national statistical institute.

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Businesses that report using AI to improve business operations are more likely to report reductions in workforce headcount than those using AI for other purposes.
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Peter Schiff
Economist, investment adviser, and president of Euro Pacific Capital.

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Of course AI will destroy more jobs than it creates, that's progress.
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Hina Bokhari
Liberal Democrat member of the London Assembly.

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Productivity can just as easily mean businesses doing the same work with fewer people.
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Falit Sijaria
Representative of the Education and Academia Stakeholder Group at the United Nations.

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Automation is rapidly dissolving jobs, threatening to turn years of sacrifice into obsolete skills.
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Daron Acemoglu
Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress

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Good AI needs to complement humans, and this requires a redirection, because the current focus on AGI is, in all but name, an agenda for displacing humans from meaningful work.
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Lord Khan of Burnley
Labour member of the UK House of Lords and parliamentary spokesperson.

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Some 42% of young people agree that AI is threatening their job prospects, and 49% are wary of the future of AI and its impact on their future work.
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Viscount Camrose
Conservative hereditary peer and former UK government minister.

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I welcome the Government providing a great deal of skills education, but I do not see how the Government know what skills the marketplace is looking for in AI, particularly in the situation in which we find ourselves, where the recruitment marketplac...
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Viscount Colville of Culross
Crossbench hereditary peer and UK media and technology policy advocate.

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My Lords, I am concerned about the adverse effect that AI is having on employment in the creative sector.
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Robert Reich
Former Secretary of Labor

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And AI will destroy millions of jobs and decimate the middle class.
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S&P Global
Provider of financial information, analytics, and market research.

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AI's employment impact has turned modestly negative, reversing the more positive picture in 2025. In contrast, the latest S&P Global Purchasing Managers' Index survey shows a global net impact of -5 percentage points over the past 12 months, with a f...
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Neil Duncan-Jordan
UK Member of Parliament for Poole.

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We also need the Government to introduce a raft of measures to manage AI-driven changes to work. Those measures should include an employment levy on companies that replace large numbers of workers with AI, training subsidies for displaced workers, re...
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Independent International Scientific Panel on AI
United Nations-appointed independent scientific panel assessing artificial intelligence opportunities, risks, and impacts.

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Without these investments, AI risks widening inequality, displacing workers and shifting wealth from labour to capital rather than creating sustainable good jobs – those with fair compensation, worker autonomy and a reliable path to social dignity.
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Greg Casar
U.S. Representative from Texas; Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus

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Companies are already laying off workers citing AI, so we must understand how American workers are at risk.
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Adam Dorr
Director of Research at RethinkX; technology disruption researcher.

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So AI will create new jobs, and for a short and fortunate grace period it really will look like it is creating more than it destroys.
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RethinkX
Technology disruption think tank.

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AI and humanoid robots break that logic because they are general-purpose. Yes, the disruption will create new jobs. The problem is that AI and robots will be able to do those new jobs too.
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Cory Doctorow
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The financing for new models is coming from investors, and those investors are making a bet that the AI they're funding will be so good that employers can fire half their workers and replace them with AI, with the proceeds split between AI companies'...
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Brad Sherman
U.S. representative from California.

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Now, like many technologies, AI will make some people billionaires and more people unemployed.
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Vijay Eswaran
Executive Chairman of QI Group and business leader writing on entrepreneurship and employment.

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None of this diminishes the importance of large companies. Established firms remain essential for investment, supply chains, training and innovation partnerships. But they cannot tackle the employment challenge alone, particularly as automation is ra...
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Lord McNally
Liberal Democrat member of the UK House of Lords and former minister; supports cross-party scrutiny of AI regulation.

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We have heard the concerns of many in the creative industries about the capacity of AI to dislodge and, as the noble Lord, Lord Johnson, explained, wipe away whole sections of employment.
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The Lord Bishop of Oxford
Bishop of Oxford and member of the UK House of Lords.

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Warehouses, call centres, transport, entry-level jobs in the professions and coding are all seeing vast reductions in the workforce in the aim of efficiency.
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Zichen Song
Computer science researcher at Sungkyunkwan University studying AGI, labor substitution, and political economy.

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This paper develops a political-economy model of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a technology that progressively substitutes living labor with machine-based productive systems. The model studies the transition from the first moment at which ...
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Lim Kok-Tiong
Financial-industry practitioner with a PhD in financial economics from the University of Malaya; author on AI's impact on Malaysia's economy.

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Reskilling and job creation may not keep pace with AI-driven job loss, especially as agentic AI expands into complex workflows. This raises the risk of structural unemployment in certain sectors.
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Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
California governor's official press office

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Governor Gavin Newsom today issued an executive order directing California to prepare workers, small businesses, and communities for the economic disruption that artificial intelligence will bring to the workforce.
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Sarah Breeden
Bank of England deputy governor

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What has really come through when talking to businesses about their hiring intentions is that, as people leave, they are not replacing them. That means their productivity levels are going up; that is a good news story, but it is a problem for entry-l...
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Ram Charan
Business adviser and author who advises corporate CEOs and boards on strategy and management.

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AI will eliminate jobs. There should be no confusion about that. In history, when jobs were eliminated, new jobs were created. This time, however, it may take longer for new jobs to emerge. So there is going to be a gap.
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Rose Luckin
Professor of Learner Centred Design at University College London, researching AI and education.

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The threat is rarely that AI can do the full job of a skilled professional. It is that leadership under financial pressure will use partial automation as justification to cut the role.
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Patrick Artus
Economist, economic adviser at Ossiam and member of the Cercle des Économistes.

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Over one year, total employment has slightly declined, suggesting that job destruction linked to AI development has not been offset by job creation in sectors less exposed to these transformations.
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Allianz Research
Economic research division of Allianz Group, publishing analysis of AI and labor-market impacts.

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AI-driven job losses are likely to be partially offset over time, but with meaningful transition costs.
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Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School.

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Predictions suggest a great many existing jobs will be cut in AI-inspired layoffs, with entry-level positions particularly vulnerable.
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Elsie Peng
Economist at Goldman Sachs Research

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Overall, this has created a modest net drag on US labor markets.
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Goldman Sachs Research
Goldman Sachs research division publishing economic analysis of artificial intelligence and labor markets.

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Our economists’ analysis shows a modest net drag on labor markets, with AI reducing monthly payroll growth by roughly 16,000 jobs in the past year and raising the unemployment rate by 0.1 percentage point.
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Larry Elliott
Economics editor of The Guardian and journalist covering economic policy, labor, and technology.

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A sharp rise in business costs coupled with the ready availability of new labour-saving technology is a toxic mix that has the potential to destroy jobs rapidly and on a grand scale.
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Baroness Berger
Labour member of the UK House of Lords; former Member of Parliament.

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My Lords, we already know there is a growing challenge in the graduate job market exacerbated by AI, as we have recently discussed in your Lordships’ House.
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Lee C. Tucker
Economist and author of the U.S. Census Bureau working paper on AI and early-career hiring.

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Using detailed tabulations from matched employer-employee administrative data, I document evidence of an immediate, sizable, and persistent decrease in the level of early career (22-24 year old) hires following introduction of ChatGPT within the indu...
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International Labour Organization
UN specialized agency for labor

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is set to touch the working lives of nearly 80 million people across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). However, only a small proportion work in occupations facing the highest levels of expo...
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Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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We must be intentional and make collective, democratic choices, rather than letting market forces play out and risking leaving most citizens behind.
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Kathy Hochul
Governor of New York

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But think about it, two things can be true at the same time: AI can and must be a force for good. At the same time, it could literally eliminate many entry and mid-level jobs that are the pathway to the middle class and beyond. If that occurs, we can...
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David Duvenaud

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Large language models in particular, and their successors, are on track to becoming a competitive or superior replacement to humans in almost all of our important white-collar and decision-making roles over the next five to 10 years, roughly. In the ...
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Brian Schatz
U.S. Senator (D–Hawaii)

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AI is already changing how people work, and it’s bringing real risks: massive job losses, increased workplace surveillance, and weaker bargaining power for workers. We need to get ahead of it.
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Andrew Yang
Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate

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I believe that millions of white-collar workers are going to lose their jobs in the next 12 to 18 months due to AI. [...] AI is now able to do the work of a very, very smart human in minutes or even seconds. This is going to displace marketers, coder...
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Michael S. Barr
Federal Reserve Board governor

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AI-centric start-ups with radically new business models displace firms that are unable to adapt, and layoffs soar, leading to widespread unemployment in the short run and declines in labor force participation over time, as a large share of the popula...
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Mustafa Suleyman
Microsoft AI CEO; author

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I think that we're going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks. So white-collar work, where you're sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person most ...
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Eloise Gómez Reyes
California State Senator

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Recent announcements that tens of thousands of jobs will once again be sacrificed to automation is a stark reminder that we cannot rely on CEOs of the richest and most powerful companies in the world to protect workers and communities. Lawmakers must...
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Dario Amodei
CEO at Anthropic

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It is not clear where these people will go or what they will do, and I am concerned that they could form an unemployed or very-low-wage “underclass.”
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International Monetary Fund
International financial institution

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AI’s uneven impact on workers is another important consideration. While innovation drives growth, it risks displacing jobs and depressing wages for certain segments of the workforce.
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Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London.

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Seize the potential of AI and use it as a superpower for positive transformation and creation or surrender to it and sit back and watch as it becomes a weapon of mass destruction of jobs.
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Adam Hines
Chief of Staff in the Office of the CEO and Senior Managing Director at Hines.

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Workers are accomplishing tasks more quickly or are not having to do tasks that have been automated by AI. The workforce is already feeling this shift at the lowest rungs of the corporate ladder, as companies hire fewer entry-level workers.
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Tristan Harris
Center for Humane Technology cofounder

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They're not racing to augment and support human workers. They're racing to replace human workers. And what that will lead to is unprecedented levels of concentration and wealth and power because essentially, all the money in the economy - instead of ...
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Elon Musk
Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal

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AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store.
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Geoffrey Hinton
Godfather of Deep Learning

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What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers [...] It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fault, tha...
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Mo Gawdat
Ex-Google X business chief, author

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My belief is it is 100% crap, [...] The one thing they don’t think of is AI will replace them too,
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Tiff Macklem
Bank of Canada governor

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As AI becomes more established [...] it could end up destroying more jobs than it creates. [...] This is a concern for us all.
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Martin Ford
Author of Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

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it seems very unlikely that there will be enough of these new positions to absorb all the workers displaced from more predictable work [...]
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Karl Fogel
Open Tech Strategies partner

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[...] machine agents is precisely that they will replace more (lower-paid) humans than the number of (more highly-paid) humans needed to build and maintain the machines.
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S. Craig Watkins
UT Austin professor and author

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This is [...] happening [...]. In general, the jobs loss will not likely be matched by the jobs created, thus creating a net loss of jobs overall.
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Dave Kissoondoyal
CEO, KMP Global Ltd.

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We have [...] witnessed the effects [...] on the labor force. Similarly—[...] artificial intelligence (AI) applications [...] will have displaced more jobs than they have created by 2025.
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Steven Horsford
U.S. representative from Nevada.

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AI has the potential to lift workers up, but right now, too many companies are using it as cover to push workers out [...]
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Sarah Jones
UK Crime and Policing Minister and Member of Parliament.

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There are lots and lots of reasons why – COVID mental health being one of them – but the risk of AI taking some of our jobs is another one.
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Jason Droege
Chief Executive Officer of Scale AI.

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There would be no employment “apocalypse” from AI, although the technology, like all technologies, would inevitably change how we work.
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Lord Watson of Invergowrie
Labour member of the UK House of Lords; calls for binding regulation on powerful AI model developers.

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One of the major effects AI will have on humans is economic displacement. As AI systems become increasingly capable, the risk that human labour will be replaced on a significant scale grows ever more real. Jobs that once required years of training an...
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Dan Schulman
CEO of Verizon; former President and CEO of PayPal

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[AI's rise is] dead certain to eliminate jobs.
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Jack Dorsey
Co-founder of Twitter/X and Block (formerly Square)

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We're already seeing that the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. [...] I think most companies are...
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Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator from Vermont

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70% think AI will lead to fewer jobs. They are right.
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Dr. Jeff Ross
Hedge fund manager

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I think it will destroy way, way more jobs than it creates [...]. Because AI is a thousand times smarter than the smartest doctor, right?
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Joe Brusuelas
RSM chief economist

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During that time span there is likely to be more technological displaced workers than there are jobs created from the integration of artificial intelligence.
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves
President of Estonia since 2006

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The rapid replacement of jobs by machines/artifical intelligence will lead to the need for a Universal Basic Income.
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Nick Bostrom
Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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The ethical issues related to the possible future creation of machines with general intellectual capabilities far outstripping those of humans are quite distinct from any ethical problems arising in current automation and information systems. Such su...
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