CAIS dashboard tracks AI job cuts and wage losses by state
The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) maintains a Wage Loss Dashboard that maps state-level AI-attributed layoffs and converts them into estimated annual wage losses. It counts just over 117,000 AI-attributed job cuts in the US so far this year — about $8.5 billion in estimated annual wage losses, or roughly $25 per person nationally (about $56 in California and $14 in Alaska) — drawing on Challenger, Gray & Christmas layoff announcements, Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data and Census population estimates. The project also cites the Remote Labor Index it co-developed, saying the best AI agent rose from completing 2.5% of real-world freelance projects at professional quality to 15.8% eight months later, while the dashboard excludes jobs created by AI, productivity gains and re-employment.
Turning AI-attributed layoffs into dollar figures gives workers, communities and policymakers a concrete, if incomplete, basis for discussing the technology's local economic impact.