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
Twenty-six Meta employees have filed a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, a claim strongly denied by the trillion-dollar company.
Jul 15, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Lancaster University researchers have identified gaps in AI security research following a government-commissioned thematic review.
Jul 14, 2026
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Business
Financial markets are rewarding companies that are well-positioned to benefit from widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) with higher returns, according to a new Yale-led analysis of 380 trillion AI tokens, one ...
Jul 13, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Almost half of Australian adults have used generative artificial intelligence (GAI), with most users reporting it improves how they do their jobs or study, according to new research by the Australian National University (ANU) ...
Jul 9, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Young people in low- and middle-income countries appear generally more optimistic about how AI can enhance their work prospects and social lives than their Western peers, according to our new survey of people in 10 countries ...
Jul 7, 2026
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Business
Long looked down upon, skilled trades are booming in the United States, especially among young adults drawn by strong demand—even as artificial intelligence (AI) eats into service-sector jobs.
Jul 2, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
About 90% of employers use AI to some extent in hiring, yet research on how this is impacting job seekers is virtually nonexistent. In one of the first studies to analyze AI hiring tools, Stanford researchers have discovered ...
Jun 29, 2026
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Business
Recent swings in tech stocks are reviving fears of an AI bubble—and some experts warn that if it pops, the fallout could be bigger than anything Wall Street has ever seen.
Jun 27, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called on artificial intelligence companies to release information about the carbon pollution they create, along with the water and land used to power their operations.
Jun 23, 2026
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Business
The AI race is already generating forces that are transforming the global economy. That makes it surprisingly similar to the green transition, given the potential of both to upend traditional industries, labor markets and ...
Jun 16, 2026
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