AI 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...
View ArticleMeasuring and Building Human Leadership in an AI World
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, Measuring Human Leadership Skills With AI Agents, presents evidence that artificial intelligence may soon play a central role in...
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