Rest of World investigates economies where macroeconomic indicators are improving thanks to AI, whilst employment is contracting.
Rest of World devotes an investigation to the disconnect between two curves that we have become accustomed to seeing moving together: economic growth and employment. In several countries, the rapid adoption of AI supports macroeconomic aggregates without translating into job creation — sometimes even accompanied by their decline.
The media is particularly interested in economies where a significant part of their activity is based on outsourced services: call centers, data entry, content moderation, outsourced development. These are precisely the segments where generative AI automation is advancing the fastest, and where trajectories of social mobility had been built in a generation.
The survey puts two readings in tension. That of the indicators, which record very real productivity gains. And that of the people concerned, for whom these gains are not converted into jobs, wages, or safety nets. It is this gap — growth that no longer falls back into the labor market — that the title refers to as the human cost of the ongoing revolution.
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