How many jobs is your state losing to AI? This dashboard tracks the cuts - and the cost - ZDNET

Why it matters

ZDNET reports on the Center for AI Safety's Wage Loss Dashboard, a tracker that converts AI-attributed job cuts into estimated annual wage losses and maps them by state, with data through September. The tool draws on layoff reporting from Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, wage figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Census Bureau population estimates, then expresses losses per person relative to everyday costs like a tank of gas. The piece emphasizes that the figures are estimates, not observed layoffs: companies themselves decide whether cuts count as AI-related, and the dashboard excludes jobs created by AI, productivity gains, and re-employment. CAIS says the goal is to make the costs of AI adoption visible to workers, communities, and policymakers rather than to shame any company. ZDNET also notes a companion section tracking how well AI agents complete remote freelance tasks, based on the Remote Labor Index benchmark CAIS co-developed, and mentions a similar effort, Jobloss.ai, run by the Alliance for Secure AI.