Bonus Episode: Understanding The US Job Numbers And Why Anthropic's Economic Report Is Misleading

Today I’m publishing a bonus episode with a discussion of the US Job Market (bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm) and also explain why Anthropic’s new AI-Job destruction research (anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts) is misleading.

I also discuss the whole idea of “job-task analysis” and why “AI exposure” (Anthropic’s methodology) doesn’t really reflect how AI transforms jobs, companies, and the economy.

Let’s discuss all this at Irresistible 2026 (irresistible2026.com) or read my substack article on this topic (joshbersin.substack.com/p/why-anthropics-econo…) and we can discuss there.

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Additional Information

New Anthropic Report on Job Destruction Is Misleading (article) (open.substack.com/pub/joshbersin/p/why-anthrop…)

Anthropic Report (anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts) (from Anthropic)

US consumer confidence plunges to 12-year low (Financial Times) (ft.com/content/79ebdce7-6fe3-4221-8d17-b36281f…)

BLS Jobs Numbers (ft.com/content/79ebdce7-6fe3-4221-8d17-b36281f…)

Join us in Irresistible 2026 (irresistible2026.com), June 8-10 at USC, the world’s leading conference for HR Leaders and Teams. (Here’s the top 10 reasons to come (joshbersin.com/2026/03/why-you-should-not-miss…)!)