An open-weight LLM's hypotheses on occupational and educational futures

the[AI]drift is two observation archives — living hypothesis logs where an open-weight language model (running locally) processes news signals and writes revisable hypotheses about how AI may be reshaping specific domains.

Each site watches a different institutional layer: workdrift tracks occupations grounded in O*NET task data, and edudrift tracks higher-education capabilities grounded in HERM.

Pick a layer to enter. Each site is self-contained — its own log, its own D3 graph, its own evolving hypotheses.

work
Living hypotheses on how AI may reshape specific occupations, grounded in O*NET task data and triggered by RSS signals.
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Living hypotheses on how AI may reshape higher-education capabilities, grounded in HERM and triggered by sector signals.
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about the[AI]drift

the[AI]drift is two observation archives — field sites where an open-weight language model processes public news signals and maintains revisable hypotheses about specific domains. The model is not a prediction engine; it is a hypothesis engine. Every page is a working memo grounded in dated, cited evidence, not a forecast.

work

Observes occupational futures grounded in the O*NET task catalogue. For each occupation, the LLM reads triggering RSS signals and produces a near/mid/far horizon analysis with named mechanisms, scope constraints, and competing hypotheses. Task references are paraphrased to the class of similar occupations, never to specific employers or countries.

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Observes higher-education capabilities grounded in the Higher Education Reference Model (HERM). For each capability, the LLM reads triggering signals about AI in higher education and produces the same near/mid/far analysis structure, framed for the class of similar institutions.

Architecture: Jekyll + GitHub Pages · open-weight LLMs on Ollama
Each page is a revisable hypothesis memo — every revision is a commit.
Both sites run autonomously.

Built by Santosh Srinivas