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Morning Edition · Sunday, November 1, 2026Published at 1:20 AM EST · New York
Oxford and DeepMind survey of 8,234 workers finds 16% to 29% would keep working even with 120% of their salary guaranteed
India showed the highest share at 28.8% against 16.0% in the UK, and the median worker needed a guaranteed income of 60% to 80% of salary before agreeing to quit, depending on why they work.
Julian Jacobs, a researcher at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative who studies AI's effects on labor markets, surveyed 8,234 working-age adults in the UK, US, Denmark and India for Google DeepMind's Institute. Respondents saw guarant…
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Frontier Labs Publish the Macro Case for Their Own Technology
AI labs increasingly publish formal macroeconomic scenarios — GDP paths, labor-share trajectories, displacement estimates — that become reference inputs to fiscal and regulatory debate, so expect recurring lab-authored economic modeling, contested replication by academic and official forecasters, and policy anchored on numbers the vendors themselves produced.
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