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Category: Future of Work
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In 2022 Congress requested a study by the National Academies on the current and future impact of AI on the US workforce. The report, “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work,” was released in November of 2024. The three year study was conducted by a Committee of experts from universities and private sector institutions co-chaired…
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A few weeks ago, MIT News published an article on “What do we know about the economics of AI?” The article is based on the research of MIT Nobel laureate professor Daron Acemoglu, who in October was awarded the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with his MIT colleague Simon Johnson and University…
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A few weeks ago, The Economist published “The World Ahead 2025,” its 39th annual issue that examines the trends and events that will likely shape the coming year. Last year, the overriding message from “The World Ahead 2024” was the mind-boggling speed at which life was changing, from the Middle East turmoil and economic uncertainty…
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“During this period of astonishing technical progress and public engagement on artificial intelligence, the world has been grappling with how to get AI right — and for good reason,” wrote James Manyika, in “Getting AI Right: A 2050 Thought Experiment.” Manyika is Senior Vice President of Research, Technology and Society at Google and Chairman Emeritus…
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“The next big arenas of competition,” a recently published report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), “identifies and describes a category of industries that could account for much of the future change in the business landscape and transform the world. We call these industries arenas of competition,” said the report. Arenas of competition are defined…
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“What if the A.I. Boosters Are Wrong?,” asked a recent NY Times article in its title. “A skeptical paper by Daron Acemoglu, a labor economist at M.I.T., has triggered a heated debate over whether artificial intelligence will supercharge productivity,” it added. “The bullish camp has great hopes for AI,” such as whether the technology will…
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“AI is the Industrial Revolution of knowledge work, transforming how all workers can apply information, create content, and deliver results at speed and scale,” said the “2024 AI Jobs Barometer,” a report from the professional services firm PwC. With the AI Jobs Barometer, PwC set out to find empirical evidence of the impact of AI…
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Earlier this year, MIT professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gave the closing keynote at the 2024 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Professor Brooks was director of the MIT AI Lab from 1997 to 2003, and was the founding director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) from 2003 until 2007. A robotics entrepreneur, he’s founded…
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“Have you recently heard the CEO or other senior executive of a company say something like, we’re a technology company now?” asked Andrew McAfee ealier this year in his keynote at the 2024 MIT IDE Annual Conference. McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-founder and co-director of…
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A few months ago the Linux Foundation (LF) published the “2024 State of Tech Talent Report,” a comprehensive analysis of talent management practices in the IT sector. The study is based on a web survey conducted by the LF and its partners earlier this year. The survey reached out to individuals responsible for hiring and…