Evidence over adjectives. Analysis of education technology and the future of work in this region, with every figure sourced.
Denmark has an answer. The United States has three. No published study measures what generative AI has done to employment, wages or hours in Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE or anywhere else in the Arab world. Every regional number in circulation is either a pre-AI statistic or an American projection.
June 17, 2026
Education and learning is the single largest request category in both countries, ahead of everything else people bring to an AI assistant. In the United States it ranks fourth. The figures are computed from Anthropic's open usage data, which nobody has cut for this region before.
June 11, 2026
Every AI job-exposure index in circulation, including the one Fikr Foundation publishes, is built on a database of United States occupations. In Jordan, where two in five workers are employed by the state, the job behind the title is not the same job.
June 2, 2026
Frey and Osborne's 47% was published in 2013, before the modern language model existed. It was not a prediction, it was not about job losses, and its authors have never published a back-test.
April 8, 2026
AJII scores 1,016 occupations, not the 65,000 job titles its search box accepts, and like every exposure index published anywhere it cannot tell you whether AI will replace a worker or make that worker more valuable.
March 3, 2026
