Methodology

What we count

• Layoffs that the person affected links to AI, in any country, since January 2020.
• One report is one person's own layoff. Staff, contract and freelance work all count.
• Not counted: company announcements and press reports, or reports held back or rejected by our checks.

How AI's role is known

Each report says how the person knows, from the firmest evidence to the weakest:

• Employer said so officially — in a letter, a meeting or an announcement.
• Told informally — by a manager or colleague.
• Saw AI take over the work — their tasks went to an AI tool.
• My own conclusion — their own reading of what happened.

The statistics can be filtered by this answer. We do not verify any of the levels.

From report to statistics

• A bot check by Cloudflare, a one-time form and limits per connection and device.
• A report counts no earlier than one hour after it is sent.
• Doubtful reports wait in quarantine until a moderator accepts or rejects them. A genuine report sent through a VPN or an office network may be delayed, not lost.

How figures are published

• Only accepted reports count. Groups of fewer than 5 are hidden.
• Counts are rounded to the nearest 5; the headline totals are exact.
• Comparing many slices can sometimes narrow a small number down to a range. Names and companies are not in the data.

Limitations

• Every number is a count of reports, not an estimate of how many people lost their jobs.
• People choose to report: this is not a representative sample.
• The reason for a layoff is the person's own account. We cannot check it.
• The data leans towards the languages and countries where the site is known.
• Duplicate and false reports can still get through.

Other sources

Trackers such as Challenger, Gray & Christmas and jobloss.ai count layoffs announced by employers or reported in the press, mostly in the United States. This site counts reports from individuals in any country, including cuts nobody announced. The two are best read side by side.