AI jobs boom offsets layoffs

Early evidence suggests AI is creating new roles — from data‑center construction to model‑deployment engineers and annotators — that, so far, outnumber the jobs it has displaced. The Economist and U.S. data cited claim roughly 1 million AI‑related hires in the U.S., versus a few hundred thousand layoffs attributed to AI. — If sustained, this flips the dominant 'automation = mass unemployment' narrative and should reshape policy responses on retraining, infrastructure permitting, and industrial planning.