April 2, 2026: A landmark MIT study out today challenges the AI job apocalypse — and the data lands somewhere more optimistic than the headlines suggest. Then: the "AI washing" debate exposes a harder truth — with Gallup data showing only 21% of employees are engaged globally and $438 billion in annual productivity losses, most large companies were already carrying 10 to 20% more workforce than they needed long before AI arrived. The Wall Street Journal profiles the real people filling 640,000 new AI-created jobs — from a 25-year-old Head of Human AI Solutions to a pathologist earning $75K on the side training medical AI. And CHRO pay at S&P 500 companies just surged 30% — what boards are really pricing in when they write those checks.
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