Burning Glass Institute

Overview

Burning Glass Institute appears in Working through it: the AI jobs boom dawns as the labor-market organization behind an estimate that about 1% of U.S. professional jobs can now be classified as AI jobs.

Current Profile

The source uses Burning Glass Institute as supporting evidence for the professional-job side of the AI boom. Its estimate is presented as roughly corresponding to 1 million AI jobs in the United States.

Key Characteristics

• Provides labor-market classification evidence in the episode’s AI jobs segment.
• Helps separate AI-specific professional work from broader professional employment.
• Supports the source’s claim that AI creates new occupational demand as well as displacement anxiety.

Evidence

• Working through it: the AI jobs boom dawns cites Burning Glass Institute through Gad Levanon’s estimate that around 1% of U.S. professional jobs can be classified as AI jobs.
• Working through it: the AI jobs boom dawns uses that estimate alongside The Economist’s counterfactual job-creation calculation.

Qualifications

The source gives the estimate but not the full classification method. The entity page should therefore treat the figure as source-scoped support, not as a complete labor-market taxonomy.

What Changed

• Added Burning Glass Institute as a labor-market evidence source for AI-job classification.

Relationships

• AI Job Creation Counterweight - concept supported by the institute’s estimate.
• Alex Domash - episode analyst using labor-market evidence.
• The Intelligence - source show that cites the institute.