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
The most prominent figures in artificial intelligence are stepping back from dire predictions about mass unemployment, as the industry faces growing public hostility over AI's promised transformation of the workplace.
May 28, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Have you applied for a new job? If you've been shortlisted, get ready to be interviewed by artificial intelligence.
May 28, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
As artificial intelligence continues to transform recruitment and workplace practices, questions around transparency, fairness, and trust are becoming increasingly urgent. A new article sheds light on how workers and job ...
May 19, 2026
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Business
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Thursday of the risks to global financial stability posed by cyberattacks powered by advanced artificial intelligence tools, calling for greater international cooperation on ...
May 7, 2026
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Business
Generative artificial intelligence is being used by 17.8% of the world's working-age population, but the gap between wealthy and developing nations continues to widen, according to a report published Tuesday by Microsoft.
May 7, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
On a recent weekday, around 50 people gathered outside the headquarters of a Chinese mobile internet company, waiting to get help with installing an artificial intelligence assistant.
May 6, 2026
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Security
Cybercriminals have been struggling to adopt AI in their work, reports the first-of-its-kind study that analyzed a dataset of 100 million posts from underground cybercrime communities. The study is published on the arXiv ...
May 4, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
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May 1, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Generative AI tools are rapidly transforming how software is built—and raising new risks in the process, according to a new TechBrief from the Association for Computing Machinery's Technology Policy Council (TPC) on the rise ...
Apr 30, 2026
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Business
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in critical decisions about health, safety, finance, and governance, a key challenge is no longer whether people and AI will collaborate, but rather how to structure this collaboration ...
Apr 30, 2026
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