The platform’s first set of indicators is publicly available at indicators.stanford.edu and provides frequently updated data on the impact of AI on the labor market, economic growth, and technology adoption.
Stanford, California, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Stanford Digital Economy Lab, part of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI), today announced the launch of the AI Economic Index, a freely accessible platform to track how artificial intelligence is reshaping jobs, productivity, and value creation in the economy.
The Canaries dashboard is a collaboration between ADP Research and the Stanford Digital Economy Lab that tracks employment trends for occupations with varying levels of AI exposure.
Takeoff Tracker assesses the strength of the evidence for AI driving explosive economic growth.
AI Economic Indicators brings together regularly updated data, interactive dashboards, and research-based methodologies in one place to provide tools and information to help policymakers, researchers, employers, and workers understand powerful new technologies.
“We are jumping blindly into one of the most critical periods in world history, and we cannot rely on anecdotes and lagging indicators about the impact of AI,” said Erik Brynjolfsson, professor at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab (DEL). “Understanding where AI is creating value and disrupting operations requires timely and reliable evidence.”
fill the gap
Traditional economic statistics were not built for technologies that can radically transform work down to the task level or provide value to consumers in ways that traditional price measurements cannot capture. Therefore, real changes, whether positive or negative, can be overlooked or not recognized long after they have occurred.
Indicators aim to fill that gap as an accessible source of curated information aimed at enabling policy makers, business executives, and individual employees to make better-informed decisions.
Phase 1
The AI economic indicators are launched in three dashboards and regularly updated at their own frequency based on separate datasets.
Canary Islands Dashboard. A collaboration between ADP Research and the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, this dashboard leverages access to DEL’s anonymized ADP payroll data to track labor market outcomes on a monthly basis. Built on research The canary in the coal mine: 6 facts about artificial intelligence’s recent employment impact (Brynjolfsson, Chandar, Chen, 2025), which focuses on occupations and industries exposed to AI as potential early signals of broader employment and wage trends.
“This dataset is a breakthrough for the AI economy, providing what economists, business leaders, and policy makers have needed for years: near real-time visibility into how AI is reshaping jobs,” said Dr. Nella Richardson, chief economist at ADP. “By analyzing the millions of jobs represented by ADP payroll data, we can track wages, employment patterns, career mobility, and more to see how changes in technology are impacting the labor market.”
takeoff tracker. Will advances in AI capabilities transform the economy? In the spirit of Nobel Prize winner William D. Nordhaus’ work on the economic singularity, this dashboard tracks a series of indicators of “AI takeoff.” Productivity, capital stock, infrastructure, and other inputs will be translated into signals categorized by the strength of evidence for AI-powered economic take-off.
Introduction monitor. This dashboard tracks AI adoption by workers and businesses using surveys and international data sources. Monitoring adoption can help reveal where AI is pervasive and show where the economic impact will be next.
Additional dashboards, datasets, and measurement efforts are planned in the coming months.
“This is not a static, one-and-done website. It’s constantly growing and evolving to meet the challenges of the day,” said Kristy Coe, DEL’s executive director. “What we are showing at launch is just the tip of the iceberg. Not only will it be of great value to decision-makers who need better data, but running the project itself will provide a means for academics to conduct cutting-edge research.”
About the Stanford Digital Economy Lab
The Stanford Digital Economy Lab is an interdisciplinary research group that studies how digital technologies are transforming work, organizations, and the economy. The lab’s insights help businesses, policymakers, students, and professionals navigate the complexity and promise of technological change. The lab is part of the Stanford Human-Centered AI (HAI) Institute and co-sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).
Source Stanford Digital Economy Lab
