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Reference / Sources / Last verified April 2026

Sources: the full bibliography

Every primary source the calculator draws on, classified by what it publishes (per-occupation, per-task, or aggregate) and how the calculator uses it. The page is structured to be cited entry by entry.

Per-occupation primary sources

PER OCCUPATION / 2025

Generative AI and Jobs: Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (2025 update)

International Labour Organization

Scope. ISCO-08 6-digit occupations across approximately 30,000 tasks, four exposure gradients per occupation.

Use here. Primary source for the calculator's exposure-gradient output. Cross-referenced with OECD AI Working Group output for triangulation.

Caveat. Uses ISCO-08 codes. Mapping to O*NET-SOC is via the BLS-published SOC-to-ISCO crosswalk, which is one-to-many in some cases; the calculator uses the dominant match.

Accessed: 2026-04

https://www.ilo.org/publications/generative-ai-and-jobs-2025-update

PER OCCUPATION / 2025

Employment Projections 2024-2034

US Bureau of Labor Statistics

Scope. Decade employment projections for approximately 800 detailed occupations and 300 industries through 2034.

Use here. Primary source for the calculator's growth panel (per-occupation projected employment change).

Caveat. BLS projections do not explicitly model AI as a discrete disruption variable; they reflect aggregate workforce dynamics including demographics, demand, and policy.

Accessed: 2026-04

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.htm

PER OCCUPATION / 2025

Occupational Outlook Handbook

US Bureau of Labor Statistics

Scope. Per-occupation employment outlook narratives, projected growth, median wage, and entry requirements.

Use here. Reference source for outlook narratives on per-occupation deep-dive pages.

Accessed: 2026-04

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/

PER OCCUPATION / 2025

O*NET 30.2 Database

O*NET Resource Center / National Center for O*NET Development

Scope. Approximately 1,000 occupations, 19,000 task statements, plus skills, knowledge, abilities, work activities.

Use here. Source for the occupation taxonomy, top-five-task list per occupation, similar-occupation links, and skills profile.

License: CC-BY 4.0 (attribution required).

Accessed: 2026-04

https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html

Per-task primary sources

PER TASK / 2024

Generative AI, the American Worker, and the Future of Work

Brookings Institution

Scope. Task-level automation exposure across O*NET tasks for over 1,000 occupations.

Use here. Source for the task-level Displaceable / Changing / Growing tags applied to each occupation's top five O*NET tasks.

Caveat. Brookings's task-level data is built on OpenAI's task-completion likelihood data. Brookings flags this; this calculator notes the same limitation on the methodology page.

Accessed: 2026-04

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/generative-ai-the-american-worker-and-the-future-of-work/

Aggregate sources (context only)

AGGREGATE / 2025

Future of Jobs Report 2025

World Economic Forum

Scope. Global skills outlook plus growing/declining occupation lists at the family level (170M new roles, 92M displaced, net 78M new by 2030).

Use here. Source for the calculator's growing-skills panel.

Caveat. WEF data is family-level, not per-occupation. The calculator uses it for the skills panel only.

Accessed: 2026-04

https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/

AGGREGATE / 2024

A New Future of Work: The Race to Deploy AI and Raise Skills in Europe and Beyond

McKinsey Global Institute

Scope. Aggregate workforce-impact estimates: 30% of current hours could be automated by 2030 (midpoint), 50% by 2030-2060.

Use here. Reference only on the homepage and methodology page for time-horizon framing.

Caveat. Commercial research firm. Cited for framing, not as primary methodology, to avoid consultant-for-the-disruptor optics.

Accessed: 2026-04

https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/a-new-future-of-work-the-race-to-deploy-ai-and-raise-skills-in-europe-and-beyond

Reference and policy framing

Excluded sources, with reasons

EXCLUDED / 2013

The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?

Frey and Osborne

Scope. Probability-of-computerisation classifier across 702 occupations, derived pre-LLM.

Use here. Excluded as primary methodology because the underlying probability estimates are pre-LLM and miss the cognitive-task disruption that defines the 2024-2026 shift. Acknowledged as the foundational paper that powered earlier-generation calculators.

Accessed: 2026-04

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf

EXCLUDED / 2023

GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models

Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin, Rock

Scope. Task-level exposure analysis using LLM self-report and human annotators.

Use here. Excluded as primary methodology because the analysis is OpenAI-derived; using a frontier-AI vendor's own work as primary methodology for an AI-displacement calculator carries optics risk. Cited for completeness on the sources page.

Accessed: 2026-04

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

Cross-references: see the full methodology at /methodology/, the pre-empted challenges at /how-to-argue-with-this/, and the term definitions at /glossary/.