March 26, 2026
How Much AI-Driven Productivity Growth Do We Want?
As AI advances, societies must consider how to strike a balance between the disruption caused…
October 29, 2025
Smarter Robots, Better People
I once hoped that generative artificial intelligence (AI) might leave manufacturing, which bore the brunt…
October 28, 2025
It’s Leverage, Not Magic—A Better Take on AI in the Workplace
Every year, I teach a one-week course through the American Enterprise Institute’s Honors Program on…
September 25, 2025
An Own-Goal H1-B Policy
The Trump administration’s proposed $100,000 surcharge on H-1B visa applications raises significant questions about the United States’…
September 22, 2025
New Approaches to Characterize Industries: AI as a Framework and a Use Case
September 18, 2025
Augment or Automate? Two Competing Visions for AI’s Economic Future
Sometimes coincidences are just coincidences, and sometimes they actually tell us something important. On Monday,…
September 16, 2025
The Coming Acceleration
Recursive AI will test the human ability to adapt. In the world of generative artificial…
September 15, 2025
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…
September 4, 2025
C’mon Student Athletes: Flex Those (Noncognitive) Muscles
For many years, I was a skeptic of school-based athletic programs. As a student government,…
August 29, 2025
Did the Canaries Just Die?
Over the past few months, news about the unemployment tribulations of recent college graduates has…
August 21, 2025
When Human Fatigue Becomes AI’s Weakest Link
“Extreme work” is back, and it isn’t pretty. Reports from the AI sector point to…
August 19, 2025
Goldman: Stories of Workforce Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
The “smart money” has weighed in on potential AI employment impacts. The best way to…