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Liya Palagashvili

person · academicCredibility: 71%

Why this score? Director of the Labor Policy Project at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University; labour economist testifying on the published record. Cites and characterises existing statistics rather than originating series; Mercatus is an avowedly free-market institute, so claims minimising regulatory need carry a directional prior.

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The early evidence does not yet show broad AI-driven employment loss.✓

— Liya Palagashvili · Jul 29, 2026
Context: True on the word that carries the claim — "broad." Yale's Budget Lab found no discernible AI disruption 33 months after ChatGPT, the Dallas Fed called the employment impact "small and subtle," and no official series isolates AI as a cause. Every measured signal that exists is narrow and age-specific. Her secondary claim is the contestable one and is not settled: Stanford and ADP date their divergence to late 2022, when the models were released, not before.