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MIT Asked 17,000 Workers What AI Can Actually Do at Their Jobs

A new MIT FutureTech study flipped the automation forecast: instead of experts predicting AI impact, 17,000+ workers evaluated real LLM outputs on their own tasks. The results upend conventional wisdom about who is most exposed.

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labor-market

ADP: Job-Switcher Wage Premium Hits 5-Year Low as 45% of Workers Now Part-Time

Job-changers earned 6.4% wage growth vs 4.5% for stayers in January 2026 — the narrowest gap since 2020. New-hire pay broke its 18-month $18/hr plateau, jumping to $19. And 45% of workers now work part-time, up 6 percentage points from 2019. ADP's structural pay-trends analysis.

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Will AI Erase 10 Million Jobs? NBER Forecasters Can't Agree

A new NBER paper compared 5 forecaster groups on AI's labor market impact. The median says GDP grows 2.5%/year. The rapid scenario says ~10M jobs gone by 2050. The disagreement reveals more than the numbers.

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policy

Fed's Barr Names 3 AI Scenarios — Including 'Essentially Unemployable'

A US Federal Reserve governor used the phrase 'essentially unemployable' out loud last month — and he wasn't talking about a fringe scenario. Fed Vice Chair Michael S. Barr's February 17, 2026 speech laid out three AI futures the Fed is actively planning around, and signals the rate-cut narrative may not survive an AI productivity boom.

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Yale Budget Lab: AI Exposure Hasn't Moved Workforce Distribution Since ChatGPT

29% of US workers are in occupations with the lowest AI exposure. 18% are in the highest. And the share has not budged since ChatGPT launched. The Yale Budget Lab's February 2026 synthesis finds AI exposure is real and measurable — but it has not yet translated into measurable employment displacement.

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research-trends

Anthropic's New AI Exposure Score: 22-25 Year-Olds Hit First

Anthropic's economists built a new way to measure which jobs are actually being done by AI right now. The first warning sign? Young workers entering high-exposure fields are seeing 0.5pp fewer hires. The full data tells a more hopeful story than you might expect.

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デンマークのAI革新:大規模採用、失業なし——2年間のデータが示すもの

ChatGPT が発表されてから 2 年後、デンマークのほとんどの知識労働者はすでに職場で AI チャットボットの使用を開始していました。彼らの雇用主は正式な AI イニシアティブを展開しました。労働者たち自身は本物の生産性向上を報告しました。しかし、ここが研究者たちを驚かせた部分ですが、給料と労働時間はほぼ変わりませんでした。[事実] これは [NBER](https://www.nber.o

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management

CEOたちはAIの実績ではなく可能性で人を切っている——Gartner:AI投資50件中、変革的なのは1件だけ

ハーバード・ビジネス・レビューが不穏なパターンを明らかにしました。大手企業がAIの成果ではなく期待に基づいてホワイトカラーの人員を削減しています。Gartnerのデータでは、AI投資50件中変革的なのは1件のみ、5件中1件だけがプラスのROIを達成。

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