Page 16: 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.

Security

Is violent AI-human conflict inevitable?

Are you worried that artificial intelligence and humans will go to war? AI experts are. In 2023, a group of elite thinkers signed onto the Center for AI Safety's statement that "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should ...

Business

AI may boost global trade value by nearly 40%: WTO

Artificial intelligence could boost the value of global trade by almost 40% by 2040 thanks to cost reductions and productivity gains, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday.

Robotics

How autoworkers are retraining for the robot revolution

General Motors Co. worker Annie Ignaczak spent years walking in circles on concrete factory floors, assembling the same parts and counting down hundreds of pieces she and her coworkers needed to finish before lunch.

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