U.S. small businesses currently using AI are significantly more likely than non-users to expect increased employment and revenue over the next twelve months, according to an analysis of the 2025 Small…
A decade of official labor statistics from the UK Office for National Statistics and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows no net aggregate job destruction nearly four years into commercial large la…
A Stanford Digital Economy Lab publication titled "How Does AI Change Labor Demand? Evidence from 41 Countries" examines how AI adoption affects labor demand across 41 countries. The study is hosted a…
A developer's analysis of payroll data from Stanford's Digital Economy Lab found that employment for software developers aged 22–25 fell nearly 20% from its late-2022 peak, while employment for develo…
E-commerce strategist and coach advises small e-commerce teams to measure AI's value at the level of a defined workflow rather than applying a single productivity expectation across the business. The …
Enterprises face a 'token reckoning' in 2026 as usage-based AI contracts lead to bill shock, with Uber's 5,000 engineers exhausting their annual development budget in months. A Stanford Digital Econom…
Enterprise AI bills are tripling even as token prices fell 75% over the past year because agentic workloads consume five to 30 times more tokens than chatbot tasks, according to an analysis by an unna…
The Stanford Digital Economy Lab's Transformation Tracker, updated July 1, 2026, finds no decisive evidence that AI is driving transformative economic growth, despite rapid advances since Nobel laurea…
Kyndryl's 2026 People Readiness Report, surveying 1,100 senior business and technology leaders across eight countries, found that 57% said AI was embedded in core processes or deployed broadly, but on…
A 1Password survey of technical workers found that 62% reported gaps in how their company manages AI agents, highlighting the challenge of controlling AI costs as usage-based billing drives up expense…
Kazakhstan is incorporating artificial intelligence from primary school to university and preparing to open its first specialized AI research university, aiming to gain an edge through education. The …
Stanford Digital Economy Lab research using ADP payroll data shows employment among workers aged 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is about 19% below where it would be if it had kept pace with less-e…
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson and researchers at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab have concluded that an AI-driven 'job apocalypse' is unlikely, despite impacts on entry-level jobs, according t…
Stanford's Digital Economy Lab found that employment for 22-to-25-year-olds in AI-exposed jobs fell 16 percent relative to others, while a survey of about 1,000 hiring managers showed 31 percent raise…
A Stanford Digital Economy Lab study by Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ruyu Chen finds that early-career workers in AI-exposed occupations experienced a 16% relative employment decline, but th…
The Stanford Digital Economy Lab's 2026 update to its 'Canaries in the Coal Mine?' report finds that the employment gap between entry-level workers in AI-exposed professions and their peers in less ex…
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson said on the Dream Machines podcast that AI's tendency to work better at larger scales could lead to a 'winner take most' outcome, as companies raise hundreds of bi…
A 2026 survey of 2,000 students found that 69% worry about finding a job after graduation due to AI replacing human tasks, while a spring 2026 survey of 2,515 parents of college students reported that…
An AI agent session can consume 50,000–200,000 tokens, compared to a few hundred to a couple thousand for a chat turn, with multi-agent jobs exceeding one million tokens, according to illustrative ran…
A Stanford Digital Economy Lab working paper analyzing ADP payroll data for millions of U.S. workers through June 2026 finds no evidence of economy-wide job displacement from generative AI, but employ…