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.
Business
Despite suggestions it has been losing its edge, California is way ahead of others when it comes to the hottest technology right now: artificial intelligence.
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Software
Imagine a future where artificial intelligence quietly shoulders the drudgery of software development: refactoring tangled code, migrating legacy systems, and hunting down race conditions, so that human engineers can devote ...
Jul 17, 2025
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Business
A Stanford study captures the gap between worker desires and AI's abilities and highlights areas ripe for research and development.
Jul 15, 2025
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Business
A survey of 23 machine learning (ML) practitioners across the U.K. and other parts of the world, conducted by King's College London, highlighted feelings of alienation from the sustainability of models, suggesting environmental ...
Jul 14, 2025
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Business
There's been much talk recently—especially among politicians—about productivity. And for good reason: Australia's labor productivity growth sits at a 60-year low.
Jul 12, 2025
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Business
By 2040, the energy demands of the tech industry could be up to 25 times higher than today, with unchecked growth of data centers driven by AI expected to create surges in electricity consumption that will strain power grids ...
Jul 10, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be made more sustainable by making practical changes, such as reducing the number of decimal places used in AI models, shortening responses, and using smaller AI models, according to research ...
Jul 9, 2025
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Robotics
Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotton field in California, plucking out weeds.
Jul 6, 2025
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Business
Las Vegas data-center owner Switch is expanding its big presence in Southern Nevada with a new kind of facility: so-called AI factories.
Jul 2, 2025
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Business
In 2025, it seems like just about everyone is talking about artificial intelligence and its myriad potential uses.
Jul 2, 2025
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