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
Artificial intelligence is a lively topic of conversation in schools and workplaces, which could lead you to believe that only younger people use it. However, older Americans are also using AI. This raises the questions of ...
Aug 14, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
AI seems to be well on its way to becoming pervasive. You hear rumbles of AI being used, somewhere behind the scenes, at your doctor's office. You suspect it may have played a role in hiring decisions during your last job ...
Aug 7, 2025
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Business
If you read the typical 2025 mass layoff notice from a tech industry CEO, you might think that artificial intelligence cost workers their jobs.
Jul 30, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Most U.S. adults say they use artificial intelligence to search for information, but fewer are using it for work, drafting email or shopping.
Jul 29, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous experts scrutinize research before it is published. This helps safeguard the accuracy of the written record.
Jul 25, 2025
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Business
There are deep age, gender, occupation, and class-based social divides in how people use generative AI applications—such as ChatGPT—and how they perceive their impact on job security, new research shows.
Jul 24, 2025
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Business
The tech world says generative artificial intelligence is essential for the future of work and learning. But as an educator, I still wonder: Is it really worth bringing it into the classroom? Will these tools truly help students ...
Jul 22, 2025
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Business
Artificial intelligence may take over some tasks and transform others, but one thing is certain: it's reshaping the job market. Researchers at USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) analyzed LinkedIn job postings and ...
Jul 22, 2025
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Business
A coalition of funders, including the Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group, will spend $1 billion over 15 years to help develop artificial intelligence tools for public defenders, parole officers, social workers and others ...
Jul 17, 2025
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Business
A study of Chile's workforce finds that AI could "accelerate" nearly half of the tasks performed by the country's 100 most common jobs.
Jul 17, 2025
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