https://aifaultline.com/authors/arul-murugan/New papers by Arul Murugan in the AI Fault Line guide, and news naming them. https://aifaultline.com/research/p/title-e055f319cd9c365f/https://aifaultline.com/research/p/title-e055f319cd9c365f/Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000The authors build a national AI exposure metric spanning 141 countries by combining occupation-level exposure scores with international employment data, finding high-income countries far more exposed than low-income ones (Europe/Central Asia 50% more exposed than Sub-Saharan Africa) and women more exposed than men in 91% of countries due to concentration in white-collar and sales work. They also introduce an indirect-exposure channel via remittances — Tajikistan's below-average direct exposure becomes above-average once its 37%-of-GDP dependence on Russian remittances is accounted for. This matters because it shows AI labor-market policy calibrated to US/European evidence will misfire elsewhere, and it validates the metric against Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI adoption data.