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A daily count of the AI roles 190 named employers have open, taken from the careers feeds they publish themselves. Published by Straits AI Group, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.

AI Jobs Report: AI job disruption worldwide, created against displaced

SeriesAI-jobs-disruptionmodelledLive · October 2026
Net effect on jobs worldwide, since 2025
■ 55% created+3,918,607modelled · from listings
45% displaced ▨−3,206,133projected · flat rate
A modelled estimate of AI's net effect on jobs worldwide, calibrated to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025. Both sides are projections: the displaced side is flat, and everything we have counted so far accounts for none of the created side. How it is built.

As of2026-10-13SourceEmployers' own ATS feedsMethod

Open AI roles
4,195
Counted today
Named employers
190
Every one auditable
Sectors
11
Banks to hospitals
Regions
5
Not just the US

MeasuredThe signal the clock above is derived from. A sample, not a census. The panel is concentrated: its five largest employers are 30.2% of these roles, and Accenture alone is 14.5%.

Today

Today's briefing

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Reliability Push Meets Safety Jitters as Hiring Backs Builders

Two currents pull in opposite directions this week: big bets to make agents dependable, and a market that still privileges builders over those who test or govern them. The Fortune piece surfaces the Turing and Talent traps and stresses augmentation and gateway jobs as real levers for mobility. Across the 190 employers we track, 4,195 AI roles were open as of 2026-10-13, down 248 on the week. Our model puts new AI jobs created month-to-date at roughly 66,283. That backdrop fits our read of steady demand led by modelling and engineering at major employers, even as posts flag safety chill, valuation wobble and on-device parity. Anthropic's new reliability infrastructure for Claude centers on data accuracy and privacy, showing where investment and hiring energy concentrate. Yet evaluation and safety remain thin, so quality assurance, governance and oversight risk lagging the systems being shipped. For workers, the near-term play is to frame skills as augmentation, target builder roles that touch data integrity and privacy, and use gateway positions to cross into higher-impact tracks. For employers, closing the evaluation gap will decide whether reliability investment actually translates into resilient, trusted AI jobs.

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As of2026-10-13SourceATS feedsMethod

Where AI is actually being hired

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Open AI roles per tracked employer. Per employer, because a sector where we track five companies and one where we track thirty-five cannot be compared any other way. Transport & logistics runs 25.1 per employer, 1.1× the rate of the AI and software companies the industry usually counts. Professional services is higher at 100, but 76% of it is Accenture, so we do not lead with it.

  1. Transport & logistics
    25.1
  2. AI & software
    22.6
  3. Healthcare & life sciences
    21.3
  4. Media & entertainment
    18.6
  5. Financial services
    17.3
  6. Retail & consumer
    14.3
The evidence

What we counted

The panel →

Every figure below is counted, not modelled. Tracked daily since July 24, 2026.

3,733 core/462 AI-adjacent/what counts as an AI role

Opened
+50
On 2026-10-13
Closed
−18
Left the employer's feed
Like-for-like
-248
190 employers tracked since 2026-10-06
Observed closing
4,870
Of 9,065 roles seen

How it has moved

Full tracker →

The dashed line is rebuilt from each posting's original publish date on the employer's own feed; the thin solid line is our daily observed count, across every employer we track; the thick dark line is the like-for-like count, held to the same employers throughout, and it is the one to read. Those are not the same population: the thick line covers the employers we have tracked since day one, and the thin one covers every employer we track now.

  • Like-for-like: the same 22 employers throughout
  • Observed daily count, all 190 employers
  • Rebuilt from posting dates
  • Panel changed size — the step is coverage, not hiring
  • No snapshot Aug 1–12 — the break is missing data, not a quiet market

Who is hiring

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EmployerOpenShareShare of tracked roles
Accenture60814.5%
Capital One2014.8%
OpenAI1744.1%
Amgen1473.5%
Anthropic1383.3%
Waymo1152.7%
PwC1032.5%
Databricks862.1%
ServiceNow731.7%
Mastercard631.5%

As of2026-10-13SourceGreenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable, Personio, USAJobsAggregate counts onlyMethod

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