Artificial intelligence labor economics examines how the diffusion of AI and related automation technologies alters employment, job content, and wage structures across sectors and occupations. The field quantifies task-level exposure to AI, heterogeneous productivity effects, and resulting patterns of job displacement, creation, and reorganization, including impacts on entry-level roles, creative and professional work, and gender or skill-based pay gaps. It also studies adoption dynamics, governance and organizational challenges, and emerging social and geographic divides in AI use and benefits.
Consumer & Gadgets
Meta's recently launched AI agent Muse promises to be many things: it can fire off emails, book vacations and fill out cumbersome online forms.
Oct 20, 2026
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Business
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Germany's makers of cars and industrial machines to quickly adopt artificial intelligence to "reengineer" the country's struggling business model by tapping its wealth of manufacturing data and ...
Oct 20, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence will ultimately become a key aspect of all companies, the head of AI chip giant Nvidia said during a visit to Stockholm, where he urged Europe to ramp up its AI industry.
Oct 16, 2026
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Security
The head of Britain's domestic spy agency warned Tuesday that artificial intelligence was affecting the security risks faced by the U.K. and could "change the stakes" on bioweapons.
Oct 13, 2026
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Business
Fortnite maker Epic Games is making a "huge pivot" toward using artificial intelligence (AI) to boost video game development, CEO Tim Sweeney said on Monday.
Oct 13, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
The AI doomsday news cycle plays on anxieties about the future. The media have tended to prioritize sensational takes on the risk at the expense of more thoughtful opinions by, for example, experts in the ethics of AI.
Oct 12, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book "The Alignment Problem" has been praised as one of the best on AI, and like many scientists, ...
Oct 12, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
The capacity of rogue AI agents to destroy our species within the next decade has recently been a hot topic of debate. Fears have been voiced within the industry about the rapidly increasing capabilities of artificial intelligence.
Oct 8, 2026
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Robotics
Labor shortages, supply-chain volatility and growing demand for customized products are forcing a fundamental rethink of how work gets done in U.S. manufacturing. To remain competitive, manufacturers must produce increasingly ...
Oct 8, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
New research from the University of Limerick has found that gender bias in the workplace could be replicated in interactions with artificial intelligence.
Oct 5, 2026
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