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As a wave of AI fervor has washed over Silicon Valley, fear of an impending \u201cjobpocalypse\u201d has followed in its wake. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks in no small part to lofty prognostications from tech CEOs themselves\u2014Anthropic\u2019s Dario Amodei, for example, famously <\/span>predicted<\/span> that AI could soon replace half of all entry-level white collar jobs\u2014many industries have been bracing for what they\u2019ve been told will be a surge of human employees being replaced by machines. The economic and social disruptions caused by such mass displacement, so the true-believers say, will be of a magnitude unlike anything ever seen in human history.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the time being, however, such seismic effects have yet to materialize. More individuals and businesses are now using AI than ever before, and yet on the whole, the job market seems to be riding the wave without any noticeable calamity. The feared jobpocalypse is nowhere in sight.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s at least the case in California, according to data released Thursday alongside a new public dashboard designed to track the impacts of AI throughout the state\u2019s labor market. Despite being the global economic and cultural epicentre of tech, the state hasn\u2019t yet begun to experience the displacement that many tech moguls have prophesied.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cRight now, we are not seeing evidence of large-scale AI-related layoffs in California\u2019s labor market,\u201d Ben Hyman, an economist and senior researcher at the California Policy Lab, a research institute within the University of California, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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There were exceptions to that general rule, however: Hyman added that unemployment claims in certain, more exposed regions (like the Bay Area) and tech-heavy sectors (like finance, education, and IT) <\/span>had<\/span><\/i> seen an increase in recent years, thanks to AI. \u201cIt will be important to continue monitoring trends for those workers, as well as others, so that policymakers can respond appropriately,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The public dashboard, called the California AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT), was built via a collaboration of the California Policy Lab\u2019s UCLA division and the Employment Development Department (EDD), an agency that provides financial and job-seeking assistance for unemployed Californians, among other functions. The \u201cfirst-in-the-nation\u201d tool, as it was described in a press release, will be updated monthly. It is intended to help state policymakers identify the sectors and regions most in need of support, while giving workers a clearer sense of how vulnerable their jobs may be to AI-displacement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The data and public dashboard follow an <\/span>executive order<\/span> issued in May by California Governor Gavin Newsom, directing state agencies to start preparing for AI-driven disruptions to the labor market in collaboration with experts across academia and the private sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

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NEW: @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom today announced the launch of California\u2019s first-in-the-nation tool to proactively track AI-related job loss trends \u2013 an early warning system to help the state monitor, track, and anticipate job loss. <\/p>\n

The dashboard was developed in partnership with\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/p58uyIoWyl<\/p>\n

\u2014 Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) June 25, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The data-tracking dashboard \u201cprovides us with a clearer picture of how AI is affecting working people and jobs, and where we need to focus support and training,\u201d Stewart Knox, Secretary of the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency, said in a statement. \u201cBy grounding our decisions in data, we can respond early and strengthen pathways into good jobs to ensure California\u2019s workforce is able to adapt and thrive as technology evolves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Leading AI developers like <\/span>Anthropic<\/span>, <\/span>Microsoft<\/span>, and <\/span> have also conducted research into the current and possible future impacts of AI on the job market, with an eye towards guiding both policymakers and workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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