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Commentary
Doctor, Patient, and AI
The phrase “humans in the loop” has that made-in-a-(frontier)-lab sound to it, language manufactured to soothe anxiety about artificial intelligence without specifying what the loop is and where we might…
Journal Publication
AI and American Workers
In 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons noticed a paradox in Britain’s coal consumption. Steam engines had grown far more efficient over the previous six decades, and most observers had…
Report
New Approaches to Characterize Industries: AI as a Framework and a Use Case
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Op-Ed
The Coming Acceleration
Recursive AI will test the human ability to adapt. In the world of generative artificial intelligence, things are moving fast, and they could start moving a lot faster. Assuming that…
Blog Post
Learning by Doing: AI, Knowledge Transfer, and the Future of Skills
In a recent blog, I discussed Stanford University economist Erik Brynjolfsson’s new study showing that young college graduates are struggling to gain a foothold in a job market shaped by artificial intelligence (AI)….
Op-Ed
Without Qualified Workers, Our CHIPS Investments Could Be Money Down the Drain
Three years ago, the Biden administration, backed by big bipartisan majorities in Congress, launched the CHIPS and Science Act to revitalize domestic semiconductor manufacturing. After decades of outsourcing that reduced the U.S. production share…
Op-Ed
Tariffs Plus AI Makes for a Rocky Job Market. How Should Workers Prepare?
In today’s labor market, few occupations are safe from AI disruption. It’s been a rough month for hiring plans. The market volatility ignited by President Donald Trump’s tariff policies has…
Blog Post
AI “Slop” Comes for Job Interviews
We have all gotten used to the idea that generative AI can help bad writers become better (or at least appear to be better) than they are when left to…
Blog Post
The City That’s Always Working
Among the sectors of the US economy most exposed to AI-driven automation is finance. This is unsurprising given that banking and financial advising are massive knowledge management operations, constantly scanning…
Blog Post
Measuring and Building Human Leadership in an AI World
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, Measuring Human Leadership Skills With AI Agents, presents evidence that artificial intelligence may soon play a central role in evaluating…
Blog Post
Trump’s Tariff Formula Is Still Wrong. Maybe That’s Why No One Will Admit They Created It.
…this elasticity is close to 1 (0.945 to be exact), based on the single study they cited. Brent Neiman, one of the authors of that study, published an essay in…
Op-Ed
The Surprising Benefits of “Cooperative” AI
The Impact of AI on Work Quality and Collaboration: Insights from a Harvard Business School Study One of the great promises of the artificial intelligence era is the potential of the technology…