Research news on Artificial intelligence labor economics

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.

Machine learning & AI

Bill Gates warns world unprepared for AI upheaval

Bill Gates warned Wednesday that the world is dangerously unprepared for the upheaval brought by artificial intelligence, with the technology destroying jobs and threatening human connection, especially for young people.

Business

Is there an AI bubble? No, but some tech companies show signs

Like past transformative technologies, from railroads and radio to the internet, artificial intelligence has attracted optimistic investors and inflated valuations, and with them speculation of a bubble market—when eager ...

Security

How attackers persuade AI agents to break the rules

Today, most of us interact with AI assistants—reactive bots that wait for human instructions. Yet AI assistants are rapidly being replaced by agentic AI agents that can interact with external tools, browse the web, generate ...

Business

AI creates new jobs in over half of UK firms: Study

Artificial intelligence has created new jobs in more than half of UK firms, according to a study by British bank Lloyds released Tuesday, even as fears about its impact on employment grow.

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