Bharat Chandar
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Sep 7, 2026
Erik BrynjolfssonGUEST
You know, we did a study where we found that indeed there are many jobs that are disappearing as technology rolls through the most exposed occupations.
Erik BrynjolfssonGUEST
But the more interesting finding in the study that canaries in the coal mine with Bharat Chandar and Ryu Chen was that people who are using the technology to augment what they were doing, to complement what they're doing, had growing employment and glowing productivity, whereas those who were using it mainly to automate work had shrinking employment and productivity.
Erik BrynjolfssonGUEST
So the real lesson is not what AI does to us.
Erik BrynjolfssonGUEST
It's how we use the technology.
ChrisHOST
Give me the setup, because I want to understand what data they are looking at that the monthly government reports are missing entirely.
LauraHOST
Eric Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ryu Chen at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab published an update on August 12th.
LauraHOST
They call the project Canaries in the Coal Mine, and they use actual payroll records rather than household surveys.
ChrisHOST
Payroll records, instead of survey responses, is a meaningful methodological upgrade because it means they are watching what employers actually did rather than what a sample of households said they thought was happening.