About AIimpacted
AIimpacted tracks the job losses companies blame on artificial intelligence - worldwide, by country, by industry and by company. Not forecasts, not surveys of what people fear might happen, but the cases where an employer has said AI is now doing work that people used to do.
If you want to know whether AI is taking jobs in your industry, in your country, or at the company you work for, this is a place to look it up rather than argue about it.
A number you can check
The record currently holds 42 job-loss events covering 81,486 jobs, from 13 Jan 2025 to 1 Aug 2026. Every one of them carries the source it came from and the date it happened.
Headline figures for AI job losses vary wildly depending on who is counting, and the biggest numbers are usually the loosest - a total that sweeps in every layoff at every company that happens to be investing in AI will always look more dramatic than one that asks whether AI is actually doing the work. Whatever tracker you read, including this one, the question worth asking is: what did they count?
What counts here
One test decides it: did the employer say AI is doing the work? A line in an SEC filing, a memo to staff, an answer on an earnings call, a named executive on the record. That is a checkable claim, and it is the only kind that enters the jobs figure.
It is a narrow test, and it leaves out cases people expect to see. A company cutting costs in one place while it spends on AI in another has made a budget decision, not a claim that software replaced anyone. A newspaper losing readers to AI-generated answers is losing real jobs, but no AI is writing its articles. Those stories are published and can be read here - they are simply not counted as AI taking the work, because that is not what happened.
Who this is for
People use this record for different reasons, and it is built to serve all of them:
- Workers checking whether AI has cost jobs at their employer, in their role, or across their industry - and wanting the company's own words rather than speculation.
- Journalists and researchers who need an AI-attributed job loss traced to a primary source and dated, with the underlying data free to download.
- Policymakers and unions weighing how much of the disruption is AI displacing work and how much is being attributed to AI after the fact.
- Anyone following the argument who wants to see the individual cases behind a headline number instead of the number on its own.
Layoffs that have not happened yet
Cuts that have been announced but have not taken effect are kept separately on the Upcoming board, each marked with how well sourced it is - the employer's own words, a news report, or accounts from the people affected. Nothing there counts towards the jobs figure until it actually happens.
Find what matters to you
Browse by country, by industry, or by company. Longer analysis lives on the blog. Researchers, journalists and anyone else are welcome to take the numbers: the verified record is available as open data at stats.json and stats.csv.
No permission is needed to use them. Credit AIimpacted with a link to this site, and give the date you retrieved the figures - the record grows as new entries are verified, so a total without a date goes stale. Please describe the number as job losses the employer attributed to AI, rather than as every job AI has cost, which is a far larger and unknowable figure.
Common questions
- What counts as an AI job loss?
- On AIimpacted, a job loss counts when the employer itself says artificial intelligence is doing the work - in a filing, a memo, an earnings call or a named on-record statement. An analyst, a journalist or a survey saying so is not the same claim, and is not counted.
- Why is a layoff I read about not in the total?
- Usually because the company gave a different reason for it. Plenty of large layoffs happen at companies investing heavily in AI without the company ever saying AI replaced the work, and some employers have said outright that AI was not the cause. Those cases are worth reading about, and you will find them here, but they are not counted as AI job losses.
- How many jobs has AI actually taken?
- Nobody can tell you precisely, and any tracker quoting a very large round number is counting something looser than employer attribution. AIimpacted publishes a deliberately narrow figure - only losses an employer has tied to AI doing the work - alongside the source for every entry, so you can check what is behind it.
- Can I download the data?
- Yes. The full verified record is published as open data at /stats.json and /stats.csv, free to reuse, with the source and date attached to every entry.
- How should I credit AIimpacted if I use the figures?
- Use them freely in articles, research, presentations and reports - no permission needed. Please credit AIimpacted and link to aiimpacted.org, and state the date you retrieved the figures, because the record grows as new entries are verified. A citation such as "AIimpacted, AI-attributed job losses, retrieved 22 September 2026, https://aiimpacted.org/stats.json" covers it. Please cite the total as what it is - job losses the employer attributed to AI - rather than as all job losses caused by AI, which is a different and unknowable number.
Our standards
Five commitments this record is held to, all of them checkable:
- Every entry names its source. Each job loss links to the filing, report or statement it came from, so you never have to take our word for it.
- The employer's words decide what counts, not ours and not an analyst's. If a company has not said AI is doing the work, the loss is not in the figure.
- A company's denial is recorded, not overruled. Where an employer says AI was not the reason, that is what the entry reflects.
- Events are dated to when they happened, not to when we wrote about them, and one layoff is only ever counted once however many outlets cover it.
- Nobody can pay to appear here, or to be removed. There is no paid placement and no sponsored entries.
Contact
Corrections, disputes and questions are welcome - particularly from a company that believes an entry misrepresents what it said. Write to hello@aiimpacted.org.
Take part
AIimpacted is a community record: members post sourced news and firsthand accounts under pseudonyms, vote on what matters, and discuss it. If you know of a job loss a company has linked to AI - or you have been through one yourself - create an account and submit a report. Every entry has its own page for discussion.