Methodology & Editorial Policy

How news stories are selected and checked

We cover documented displacement events: layoff announcements attributable to AI or automation, robot deployments entering real workplaces, and AI capabilities that measurably absorb human tasks. We do not cover rumors, unattributed "sources say" claims, or speculation about products that do not exist yet.

Every story is grounded in primary or primary-adjacent sources — company announcements, regulatory filings, official statements, and reporting from established outlets — and links to where its figures come from. Headline numbers (jobs cut, robots deployed, dollar amounts) are taken from the source, never estimated by us.

Before an article is published, it passes an automated duplication gate that compares it against our full archive. A story that shares its defining statistics with something we already published is blocked and rerouted as a follow-up to the original, so one event is never counted twice in our record.

How the robots catalog is verified

Each entry in the robots catalog records the manufacturer, list price with a source link, availability status (shipping, pre-order, or announced), a spec summary, and the job categories the robot threatens. Only commercially available or formally announced machines are listed — no concept videos, no research prototypes.

A weekly verification pass re-checks availability and pricing for the whole catalog, and updates all three language editions in lockstep. Every robot page displays its last-verified date, and the same timestamp is exposed to search engines as the page’s modification date. If a figure is out of date, that date tells you by how much.

The AI skills catalog follows the same discipline at the capability level: each entry maps a demonstrated AI capability to the industries and tasks it affects, based on documented deployments rather than vendor claims.

How Monthly Reports are built

The Monthly Reports — one series on AI and jobs, one on robotics — are original analyses synthesized from our own verified reporting of that month. They cite only articles published on this site, each of which is itself sourced as described above, and every report ends with a sources list linking to the underlying coverage. Nothing in a report rests on a claim we have not already published and sourced.

How the numbers on our stats page are produced

Every figure on our Data & Statistics page is computed directly from the verified catalog and archive at the moment the site is built — robots tracked, threatened job categories, most-targeted jobs. Nothing is hand-maintained, so the numbers cannot silently drift from the underlying data.

The role of AI, and the role of the human editor

This site is largely researched, drafted, and operated by AI systems, under standing editorial rules that encode everything on this page. One human editor sets direction, decides what we do and do not cover, reviews anything involving money or reputation before it publishes, and stops the pipeline when the output falls short of these standards. We say this plainly because a site about AI’s impact on work owes you clarity about how it uses AI itself.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we correct the article and its translations, and material corrections are noted in the text rather than silently overwritten. Each confirmed error also feeds back into the editorial rules so the same mistake is harder to make twice. Spotted an error? Write to hello@lostjobs.ai or use the contact form on the About page — corrections are reviewed by the human editor.

Citing us

You are welcome to cite our reporting, catalog data, and statistics with attribution to LostJobs.AI and a link to the page you are citing. Catalog and statistics pages carry a last-verified or build date — please cite it alongside the number, because our data changes as the world does.