THE HUMAN YIELD
SECTION 15
ISSUE 001
Permanent AI Adoption Panels
Track the same workers over time: tools used, tasks changed, wages, hours, quality, bargaining power, and wellbeing. A longitudinal panel can separate three ideas public debate routinely collapses—technical exposure, actual adoption, and lived impact—and keep updating as systems and workplaces change.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
NBER measures rapid adoption and field-level work changes; ILO’s global index explicitly distinguishes technological exposure from predicted employment outcomes.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI
national survey working paper / published 2024-09-30 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02Generative AI and Jobs: A 2025 Update
ILO research report / published 2025-05-20 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S03Economy — 2026 AI Index Report
academic current-state report / published 2026-04-01 / retrieved 2026-07-10
- S04AI and skills: What we know so far
intergovernmental current-state report / published 2026-06-05 / retrieved 2026-07-10