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AI Labor Tracker
Post-labor economics: who loses the work, and who gets it
Machines are taking on more of the paid thinking, and the useful question is no longer whether work changes but who loses it, who gains it, and how long the gap lasts.
8 min read. Nov 1, 2026
GIP Index
Introducing the Gross Intelligence Product
A new index that measures how much useful machine thinking the world produces, built only from statistics other people already publish, starting with the electricity AI actually uses.
9 min read. Nov 1, 2026
AI Labor Tracker
The job thermometer: which work is cooling and which is heating
Postings, payrolls and pay all point the same way: the screen-based jobs AI handles easily are cooling, and the work of building and wiring the AI economy is running hot.
8 min read. Nov 1, 2026
AI Labor Tracker
Bigger than the Industrial Revolution? Testing the claim
Generative AI is spreading faster than electricity, the car or the internet, but history says the payoff and the pain both arrive on a delay, and the delay is where workers get hurt.
9 min read. Nov 1, 2026
AI Labor Tracker
The data center electrician is the new software engineer
AI's physical build-out is paying a premium for people who can pull wire, cool racks and run power lines, and most of those jobs start with an apprenticeship, not a degree.
8 min read. Nov 1, 2026
AI Labor Tracker
Knowledge is free. Creativity isn't.
The price of machine thinking is collapsing faster than any technology on record, which makes original ideas, taste and the nerve to bet the scarce things worth building.
8 min read. Nov 1, 2026
AI Labor Tracker
Who pays for people when work shrinks?
Cash pilots, robot taxes, sovereign funds, shorter weeks and retraining all have real evidence behind them now, and none of them is free.
9 min read. Nov 1, 2026
AI Labor Tracker
The sci-fi scorecard: what the futurists got right about work
We graded a century of predictions about machines and work, from Bellamy and Forster to the Jetsons and Her, against what the data shows in 2026.
10 min read. Nov 1, 2026