Artificial intelligence is not taking your job just yet, according to MIT's State of AI in Business 2025 report. Instead, AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers.
Why it matters: As U.S. workers feel the pain of a tight labor market coupled with fears of a white-collar bloodbath, any disruption from AI is so far hitting farther afield, the MIT findings suggest, even though its longer-term risk is much greater.
What they're saying: "There doesn't seem to be any layoffs…Jobs most impacted were already low priority or outsourced," Aditya Challapally, leader of the Connected AI group at MIT Media Lab, tells Axios. • Instead of replacing workers, organizations are finding real gains from "replacing BPOs [business process outsourcing] and external agencies, not cutting int