AI-Created Jobs Average 28K a Month, Matching All US Net Job Growth
koltregaskes · x · 2026-09-07
A debate on AI's labor impact: one view says it's job recomposition, not apocalypse — admin and customer-service roles shrink while construction, electrical, data-center and AI-specialist roles grow. Counterpoint with monthly data: 1M AI-created jobs spread over the period is 28,000/month, the same order of magnitude as all US net payroll growth (31,000/month over 12 months). That's concentration, not resilience — and in August the data-center construction proxy added just 8,000 jobs, below its 12-month average.
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