Evidence over adjectives. Analysis of education technology and the future of work in this region, with every figure sourced.
The collapse in junior technical hiring is measured and large. The attribution is not. Stanford calls its own 19% figure descriptive rather than causal. A study of 243 million hires finds the AI coefficient goes to roughly zero once remote work is accounted for. And the report that produced the viral 65% says in the same document that the code apocalypse failed to materialise.
September 22, 2026
On Anthropic's per-capita AI usage measure, the UAE uses nearly three times its population share and Saudi Arabia slightly less than its own. The composition differs even more than the level: one is a work market, the other is still a learning market.
June 24, 2026
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
