CAIS Wage Loss Dashboard estimates 117,000 AI-attributed US job cuts and $8.5B in annual wage losses in 2026
The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) maintains a Wage Loss Dashboard that estimates the economic cost of US job cuts companies attribute to AI. It was updated this month with September data. It shows just over 117,000 AI-attributed job cuts nationally since January 2026, equal to about $8.5 billion in estimated annual wage losses. This is indu…