India, April 7 -- The AI job market impact 2026 debate is evolving as new research shows the real risk may not be job loss-but slower growth. The quick adoption of generative AI has already led to a high level of debate on the types of jobs most at risk, yet historical approaches to forecasting have tended to exaggerate or misunderstand actual impacts on the labour market. In a gap that was bridged by the 2026 Anthropic Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence research paper, the authors introduce a tangible measure named observed exposure, a combination of what large language models can hypothetically do with what they are actually doing with them at work. This is important since AI is nowhere near its full theoretica...