AI Workforce Displacement and Default Data

Published: February 2026 | American Default Research

The AI Displacement Tracker and ADI measure different systems. The tracker keeps its own zone vocabulary; ADI uses the family-method national bands with the engine reading.

The AI Displacement Tracker and the American Distress Index answer different questions. The tracker follows AI workforce displacement pressure and keeps its own zone vocabulary. ADI tracks household financial distress under the family method and uses national band labels only beside the engine reading.

The earlier version of this page blurred that boundary by pairing AI pipeline language with retired ADI framing. This revision keeps the measurement split explicit. The tracker remains upstream context outside the ADI composite.

The ADI reference page publishes the maintained national reading through canonical facts. The composite is a mean of input percentiles rather than a percentile rank of quarters.

Use the AI Displacement Tracker for workforce displacement data and ADI for household financial distress data.

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2026-07-30
ADI 43.8 2026-Q1 · Band 3 of 5 - On average, its inputs sit higher than in 44% of their own quarterly histories
Tracked Rank 9 / 11 refresh history
Refresh Delta +0.04 2026-07-16
Co-moving indicator Source Period Delta
SNAP (Food Stamp) Enrollment USDA Food and Nutrition Service 2026-04 -287175
Continued Unemployment Claims (SA) DOL via FRED 2026-07-18 -14000
Initial Unemployment Claims (SA) DOL via FRED 2026-07-25 +10000
Median Sales Price of Houses Sold (US) Census via FRED 2026-Q2 +7500.00
Total Revolving Credit Outstanding Federal Reserve via FRED 2026-05 -4480.51
AI WorkforceAI Displacement TrackerLabor MarketLayoffsFinancial Distress
Ross Kilburn

Ross Kilburn has spent over two decades working directly with financially distressed American households — from negotiating more than 1,000 short sales during the Great Recession to generating leads for a foreclosure defense law firm today. He is the author of The Complete Guide to Short Sales and the founder of American Default Research. Full bio →

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