AI & Jobs: The Futurum Files
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, March 19th, 2026
I recently did something I don't recommend unless you enjoy cognitive whiplash. I dove headfirst into as much research on AI and jobs as I could stand. Academic papers. Policy analysis. Economic models. Vendor forecasts. Think tank reports. The whole buffet.
Then I compared all of that to what I hear every week from executives, operators and practitioners across the Techstrong and Futurum ecosystems.
Now I've got another layer to add. Not theory. Not speculation. Not punditry. Actual enterprise decision-maker data from Futurum's research platform. And it doesn't contradict the earlier picture. It sharpens it.
If the first article was a 360-degree view of the landscape, this one is what happens when you zoom in on the people holding the steering wheel.