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September 6, 2023
Working from Home Has Increased More Modestly Than Many Believe
…Figure 2 is included in charts published by WFH Research and in its academic paper on trends in working from home.[7] It conveys the long-standing low work-from-home rate before the…
August 9, 2023
The AI Apocalypse Can Wait
…counterintuitively–disproportionately benefit lower-skilled workers. In April, a Stanford study of customer service workers at call centers found the use of AI boosted productivity and quickly brought low-skilled workers up to levels of…
July 27, 2023
Perspective: Can artificial intelligence teach us to be better workers?
…to live with and resolve conflict. Rather than threatening our livelihoods, perhaps advances in AI social-emotional capacities are part of the solution to our soft-skills gap. A recent Stanford University study found use of chat…
July 14, 2023
Do We Need a Reboot? Challenging Prevailing Narratives on AI
…a new era of prosperity or hamper the U.S. in leading the way toward a better and more prosperous AI future. We recently hosted an AEI event with two Stanford University professors,…
June 22, 2023
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Event Summary On June 22, AEI’s Brent Orrell and Shane Tews were joined by Rob Reich of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Jeremy M. Weinstein of the…
June 1, 2023
Will Chat Tech Help the Neuro-Divergent Find Their Place in Society?
…be the next step in making the problem worse? Some encouraging recent developments suggest AI may be able to heal, rather than exacerbate, existing social fractures. First was a Stanford…
May 23, 2023
An Unexpected Role for AI in the Workplace
…difficult to explain, replicate, and transfer through formal training processes. A recent study by a team including Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson suggests that we may resolve Polanyi’s Paradox by opening up a…
April 6, 2023
Stop the AI Pause
…regulations, agency recall authority for defective products, and targeted sectoral regulations already govern algorithmic systems, creating enforcement avenues through our courts and by common law standards allowing for development of…
March 27, 2023
Here Are the Kinds of Jobs Chat AI Is Likeliest to Affect
…a wide range of standardized tests. The blue bars show the performance of the “old” tech and the green are the “new”. In some areas, like AP Environmental Science and…
March 6, 2023
The Federal AI Shambles
…an activist federal government excessively slowing or limiting development. At the same time, if regulation lags too much, that can be problematic as well. A recent study by the Stanford Human-Centered AI…