AI Economic Indicators
A continuously updated public dashboard platform from Stanford's Digital Economy Lab tracking AI's labour-market impact.
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Background
Stanford's Digital Economy Lab launched the AI Economic Indicators platform on 10 June 2026, a free public dashboard replacing the lab's prior one-off working papers on AI's labour-market effects . It launched with three components: the Canaries Dashboard, built with ADP Research on anonymised payroll data to flag early shifts in AI-exposed occupations; the Takeoff Tracker, which measures productivity and investment signals of a broader AI-driven economic shift; and the Adoption Monitor, which tracks how fast firms and workers are actually adopting AI tools.
The lab describes the platform as a continuously growing resource rather than a one-off report, with further dashboards and datasets planned. It sits alongside a wave of 2026 data efforts, including BAT's and Oracle's own AI-linked job-cut disclosures, trying to establish an authoritative, regularly updated read on how much of the current wave of corporate restructuring is genuinely AI-driven versus routine cost-cutting relabelled as such.