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Category: Future of Work
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“Transformative AI will generate a genius supply shock: abundant, cheap, and fast agents that can outperform human beings across many domains. But society is likely to adapt too slowly to this remarkable but unfamiliar new capability,” wrote University of Toronto professors Ajay Agrawal and Joshua S. Gans in the introduction to their essay, “Transformative AI and…
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The Digitalist Papers is a series of essays that aim to offer insights on the “possible futures that the AI revolution might produce.” The first volume, released in September 2024, included twelve essays that explored the intersection of AI and democracy in America. Volume 2, released in December 2025, includes 21 essays that examined the…
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A few weeks ago, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt hosted an online conversation about the impact that AI is already having on employment and how large a transition society may be facing with three prominent economists: MIT’s David Autor, the University of Virginia’s Anton Korinek, and Yale University’s Natasha Sarin. I found their discussion…
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“The COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations to reimagine work in ways few had previously considered,” said “Remote-First Organizations: Practices that Drive Talent, Trust, and Performance,” a recently published report by the Institute for Global Responsibility (i4cp) in its Introduction. “What began as an emergency response has since become a long-term operating model for many. Remote and flexible…
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“Even as some instructors remain fervently opposed to chatbots, other writing and English professors are trying to improve them,” observed a recent New York Times article, “AI Is Coming to Class.” At the heart of the article is a debate now unfolding across higher education: whether— and how — university students should be taught to…
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“Americans have grown sour on one of the longtime key ingredients of the American dream,” said a recent NBC News article. “Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll, a dramatic decline over the last decade. Just 33% agree a four-year…
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“The proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a global debate about its potential impact on the labor market,” said a recent article, “Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence,” by Stanford Digital Economy Lab (SDEL) Director Erik Brynjolfsson, Postdoctoral Fellow Bharat Chandar, and Research Scientist Ruyu Chen…
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“As artificial Intelligence (AI) reshapes culture, science, labor markets, and the aggregate economy, experts debate its value, risks, and how quickly it will integrate into everyday life,” noted “The Longitudinal Expert AI Panel,” a recently published report. “Leaders of AI companies forecast transformative AI systems that cure all diseases, replace whole classes of jobs, and…
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“AI capabilities have improved radically in recent years,” wrote economists Erik Brynjolfsson, Anton Korinek, and Ajay K. Agrawal in “A Research Agenda for the Economics of Transformative AI,” a recently published working paper. “Our institutions, organizations, skills, and economic models are struggling to keep pace. In this growing gap lie the greatest risks of the…
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“Will AI create a generation of non-thinkers?,” asked Bharat Chandar, — a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, — in an essay published earlier this year in his Substack platform. In the essay, Chandar wrote about his concerns that a generation of students may not be able to develop the critical skills necessary…