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Anthropic published a March 5, 2026 report proposing observed exposure, a labor-impact metric that combines theoretical LLM capability with real usage patterns. The paper finds early hiring signals in exposed occupations but no broad unemployment shock yet.

A new MIT Technology Review investigation reveals that humanoid robot companies routinely obscure the scale of human teleoperation and data collection labor behind their demos, risking a repeat of AI's early automation-washing scandals.