CAIS dashboard estimates 117,000 AI-attributed US job cuts in 2026
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The Center for AI Safety's Wage Loss Dashboard estimates about 117,000 U.S. job cuts attributed to AI in 2026, equal to $8.5 billion in annual wage losses, according to ZDNet.
The estimate is $25 per person nationally and $56 per person in California, which has just over 27,000 AI-attributed cuts. Alaska has 138 cuts and a $14 per-person loss.
The dashboard multiplies the number of AI-attributed job cuts by average annual salary to produce the wage loss figure. State estimates apply each month's national share of AI-cited cuts to each state's announced layoffs, so they are modeled figures rather than observed AI layoffs.
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AIThe Center for AI Safety's Wage Loss Dashboard estimates about 117,000 U.S. job cuts attributed to AI in 2026, equal to $8.5 billion in annual wage losses. Per person, the estimated loss is $25 nationally and $56 in California, which has just over 27,000 AI-attributed cuts, while Alaska has 138 cuts and a $14 per-person loss. The dashboard estimates state figures by applying each month's national share of AI-cited cuts to each state's announced layoffs, so they are not observed AI layoffs.
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