🧊 The Iceberg Index

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For this weekend’s issue, we deep dive into the MIT report that was released this week called The Iceberg Index: Measuring Skills-centered Exposure in the AI Economy.

Basically, AI can technically do far more U.S. work than today’s job stats show.

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In this issue:

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• 🤿Deep Dive: Part 1: The Tip of the AI Iceberg

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• 🤿Deep Dive: Part 2: The Hidden Automation Layer

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• 🤿Deep Dive: Part 3: The Iceberg Surprise for Policymakers

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Part 1: The Tip of the AI Iceberg

Intelligence: Visible AI adoption in tech jobs captures only a sliver of the real exposure

• Current adoption affects around 2 percent of total wage value, mostly in software, data, and technical roles.

• Public attention gravitates toward coding automation and tech layoffs, but these jobs form a small share of the labor market.

• The Iceberg Index reframes this by measuring where AI can technically perform human skills, not where adoption has already happened.

• Traditional economic signals fail to capture this exposure because they track outcomes, not capabilities.

• Relying on visible tech disruption leads to misjudged risk and an incomplete picture of where AI is actually capable today.

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Part 2: The Hidden Automation Layer

Intelligence: AI shows far broader skill overlap in administrative, financial, and professional work, expanding exposure to roughly 12 percent of the labor market.

• The Iceberg Index reveals a fivefold jump in exposed wage value once cognitive and clerical tasks are included.

• Administrative functions, financial analysis, and coordination work show significant technical overlap with existing AI systems.

• Tools first built for software tasks now generalize to document processing, reporting, and analytical workflows.

• Exposure is geographically widespread, with some smaller states showing higher vulnerability than traditional tech hubs.

• This hidden layer demonstrates that white collar work, not robotics heavy sectors, carries the more immediate technical exposure.

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Part 3: The Iceberg Surprise for Policymakers

Intelligence: The risk is strategic misalignment, not job loss forecasts; states are preparing for the wrong parts of the economy.

• Many industrial and manufacturing regions face large gaps between what looks exposed today and what is actually exposed when skills are analyzed.

• Administrative and service roles that keep production and logistics running show far higher technical overlap than local tech sectors.

• Economic indicators like GDP, income, and unemployment offer no real signal about which states face the greatest exposure.

• Workforce planning systems focus on human only labor data and therefore miss where AI can already perform tasks.

• Treating the Iceberg Index as a forward looking capability map allows policymakers to test interventions before disruption arrives.

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