The beautiful thing about AI and robotics is that you're never done."
— Manuela Veloso
How is artificial intelligence transforming the world of work? This section tracks AI-driven job displacement, emerging roles, workforce reskilling, and labor policy — with a focus on worker voices and the Global South. Data-driven reporting on the employment shifts that affect millions, not just quarterly earnings
The nonprofit will seek private and philanthropic funding to support training and career transitions for U.S. workers adapting to the AI economy.
Liu insisted that he doesn’t want his “brothers” to lose their jobs amid automation adoption in the company’s workforce.
Singapore’s first SID–Gallup Workplace Report finds just 14% of employees engaged at work — among the lowest in Southeast Asia and unchanged since 2019 — even as the government readies the workforce for an AI-led economic transition.
The PwC AI Job Barometer report paints an optimistic picture for AI-exposed companies with higher headcount possibility.
AI is causing more software engineers to be hired, insists Huang even as Q1 2026 saw over 100,000 tech jobs slashed.
OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he is “delighted to be wrong” about AI’s short-term impact on entry-level white-collar jobs, a relief that sits awkwardly against Q1 2026, when over 100,000 tech employees were laid off globally by firms including Oracle, Meta, Amazon and Cloudflare.
Following Meta’s layoff, Senator Sanders said he wishes to speak to workers impacted by automation.
Hitachi and Anthropic are rolling out Claude-powered AI across Hitachi’s 290,000-employee workforce while expanding AI deployment in industrial sectors including energy, transportation, manufacturing, and finance.
A new Human Rights Watch report finds that platform companies use opaque algorithms to set pay, assign tasks, and deactivate workers – shifting the cost and risk of work onto an estimated 435 million people globally, including 12 million in India.
Computer scientist Andrew Ng has called out the “AI jobpocalypse” narrative, arguing overblown unemployment fears serve AI labs, let SaaS firms charge more, and justify layoffs.