Is AI Actually Creating More Jobs Than It’s Replacing?
14 Oct 2026 · 0 min
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In this segment of his YouTube video, Kevin Surace challenges the prevailing narrative that AI is causing massive layoffs. He cites a three‑year period during which roughly 400,000 new positions bearing the word “AI” in their titles were created—jobs that did not exist before. By contrast, he states that about 90,000 workers were laid off and attributed to AI, a figure he suggests is likely overstated. From these numbers, Surace concludes that AI has generated approximately four times as many jobs as it has eliminated, positioning the technology as a net employment creator rather than a threat.
