The Robots Are Coming . . . To Cut Your Grocery Bill
The pandemic-driven surge in grocery prices has, somewhat surprisingly, become a major issue in the presidential campaign. Both of the major candidates have proposed versions of price controls to...
View ArticleWhat’s Working in America’s Workforce System?
The American workforce is undergoing rapid changes driven by demographic shifts, technological advancements, and evolving skill requirements. During this time of rapid disruption, the question...
View ArticleDecoding the Software Engineering Job Market
Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about how some software coders are hitting labor market turbulence in the wake of a post-pandemic retrenchment and the sudden shift to generative artificial intelligence...
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Irresistible Policy, Meet the Unmovable Labor Market
Gad Levanon, chief economist at The Burning Glass Institute, analyzed data relating to the share of undocumented workers in a wide variety of trades and lower-wage, lower-skilled occupations, as well...
View ArticleCalibration: Making AI a Partner at Work
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the workforce, yet the workers who stand to benefit the most are often the most wary of it. Lower-skilled and less-educated workers view AI as a threat,...
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A Side Effect of the Booming Job Market: Wage Inequality Is Way Down
Lessons of the post-COVID economy. When voters tell you what they are concerned about, believe them. Exit polls from the presidential election the show that the economy ranked first among voters’...
View ArticleFinally, a Win for Working Men
Since the 1970s, working men, particularly those without college degrees, have experienced lower employment rates, increased social isolation and growing health risks. Today, we are starting to see...
View ArticleSenate Special Committee on Aging Hearing on Empowering People with...
Introduction: Chairman Casey, Ranking Member Braun and members of the committee, thank you for theopportunity to testify on the critical issues facing aging and disabled members of the...
View ArticleAI Will Have a Major Impact on Labor Markets. Here’s How the US Can Prepare.
The nation can do better at forecasting AI-driven job and skill changes, including with a data-focused nonprofit that examines the technology’s impact. Markets are the killer app for efficiently...
View ArticleAI and People: Better Together
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked widespread debate about its potential to displace highly-skilled workers. Recent research by Emilio Colombo and his colleagues,...
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Ozempic and Your Community
How GLP-1 therapies could help build a healthier, more productive workforce—and what that would mean for how we live together. As holiday treats give way to New Year’s Resolutions, the names of GLP-1...
View ArticleOn the Front Porch with Brent Orrell and Tony Pipa: A Conversation with Benji...
Event Summary On January 29, AEI’s Brent Orrell and the Brookings Institution’s Tony Pipa hosted Michelle Moore of Groundswell and Benji Backer of the American Conservation Coalition for a panel...
View ArticleAI and the Future of Work Looks Bright
One of the hottest guessing games in workforce development is figuring out how generative artificial intelligence will affect jobs and how to prepare students and workers for an AI-infused economy....
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AI and American Dynamism
Last year, I published a report, The Age of Uncertainty, on the challenges in understanding and estimating the job and skill impacts of artificial intelligence. One of the big problems was how quickly...
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A Glut of MBAs?
It’s all about the skills, not the credentials. You know the labor market times are changing when Harvard MBAs start showing up in the unemployment stories. According to a recent Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleGo Fast, Break HR
How the AI talent race is reshaping recruitment. A new survey of 250 technical leaders reveals a striking paradox: Companies are dramatically increasing AI investments—some by up to 75 percent in...
View ArticlePowering AI: The Energy Workforce Crisis No One Is Talking About
We are used to thinking about how burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) may affect jobs and employment. Usually, this means fixating on whether or not AI systems will replace or augment human labor....
View ArticleAI and Jobs: Measuring Impact and Building New Assessment Tools
AEI will host a briefing and conversation featuring Alex Tamkin, the lead author of Anthropic’s new study on how AI is being used in the workplace and what those use patterns might tell us about the...
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Up in the Air
For whom is the bell tolling? When it comes to the leading-edge impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on the workforce the answer appears to be well-paid, middle managers at some of the nation’s...
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America’s New Frontier of Opportunity and Inclusion
It would be a king-sized understatement to say that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have had better weeks, months, years, and decades than they are currently experiencing. From the...
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Stop and Go
Automated driving is picking up speed Several years ago there was a bit of a moral panic about the prospect of automated freight transportation replacing human truck drivers. These concerns were, in...
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AI Talent: It’s Not Just for High Tech Anymore
We appear to be approaching the break-out phase of artificial intelligence’s diffusion across the American economy. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, recent data from the University of...
View ArticleResponse to the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan
Executive Summary The United States stands at a critical juncture in AI policy where measured, strategic governance is essential for maintaining technological leadership. Overregulation risks stifling...
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The Surprising Benefits of ‘Cooperative’ AI
The Impact of AI on Work Quality and Collaboration: Insights from a Harvard Business School Study One of the great promises of the artificial intelligence era is the potential of the technology to...
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