Economists are coming around to the idea that AI really is killing jobs

The most reassuring argument about AI and jobs quietly explains why Gen Z can’t get one

Smart people disagree on the AI job apocalypse, and even the prophets of white-collar doom—Dario Amodei and Sam Altman—have walked back their predictions. But the best explanation for why AI won’t kill off jobs across the economy comes, perhaps unexpectedly, from a Dutch software company that sells its products to law firms. It also explains []

AI vs. Workers w/ Alexandra Mateescu and Aiha Nguyen

While we hear plenty of gloomy predictions about how the adoption of AI technologies will take away millions of jobs in the future, it’s already gutting labor rights and alienating workers right now. Alexandra Mateescu and Aiha Nguyen are two of the researchers behind a new report on this matter, “Last Place in the AI-First Economy: How the AI Industry

Industry Leaders Say AI Will Boost, Not Replace, Global Services Jobs

Workers in the global services industry are being assured that artificial intelligence (AI) is designed to enhance productivity rather than replace jobs. Speaking during a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think []

A Potentially Terrible AI Economic Dilemma

Austerity for the non-AI economy?

The Next Labor Crisis May Be Too Few Workers. Could AI Help Pick Up the Slack?

New economic research might be pointing toward a shift in thinking about what AI means for the job market.

AI won’t restore an era of rapid growth, says Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides

Nobel Prize-winning economist has poured cold water on the idea that artificial intelligence will haul Western economies back into an era of rapid productivity growth, warning that the fast-growth years may already be gone for good. Christopher Pissarides, who shared the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics and teaches at the London School of Economics, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Peter Linneman On AI's Trajectory, Trump's Tariffs And Misleading Inflation Numbers

Trillions of investment dollars are pouring into the advancement of artificial intelligence, touching nearly every sector of the economy while stoking fears that the technology could make American jobs obsolete. However, AI isn’t going to be the...

Even After Being Laid Off, 63 Percent of Workers From This Group Don’t File for Unemployment Benefits—Here’s Why

AI-related workforce reductions are on the rise. However, even after being cut, not every worker will apply for unemployment. Here, an expert explains why.

For 250 years, work defined American identity. That era Is ending

AI is not just disrupting jobs. It is destabilizing the work-centered identity that helped define American life, forcing us to invent something new.

The Lump of Labor Fallacy in the Age of AI

New technology doesn't just replace labor. It creates new forms.

Could Artificial Intelligence Create Better Interest Rates for America?

Could artificial intelligence improve the economy by creating different interest rates for businesses and consumers? Explore the future of AI driven monetary policy.

I’ve held hundreds of job interviews. We shouldn’t trust AI with it

At their best, using AI to screen candidates can save time for the business. At their worst, they add complications to the already emotional toll of job hunting.

Hype Or Hope? AI Run Leading To More Stock Scrutiny

Hype Or Hope? AI Run Leading To More Stock Scrutiny

AI Is Contributing to the Gigification of Work

Bosses have desired ways to cut labor costs since time immemorial. Artificial-intelligence hype provides a powerful new excuse to replace stable employment with gig work.

Don't be fooled by scammer deepfakes

Don't you just love all the innovations that the advent of AI has allowed for? There's mass disinformation, the price of consumer computing going through the roof, poisoning groundwater for entire communities, but, uh at least it's making some people's jobs easier! — Read the rest The post Don't be fooled by scammer deepfakes appeared first on Boing Boing.

AI: Jobs disappearing from Dutch labor market in design, customer service, advertising

Artificial intelligence (AI) is leading to declining job opportunities in many professions, the benefits agency UWV said in its annual report on which professions offer good job prospects

Europe’s AI moment: Four imperatives for business leaders

Business in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) moves with dizzying speed. More powerful models launch regularly, bringing new opportunities and risks. Fresh use cases emerge daily, increasingly leaning on the orchestration power of agentic AI. Innovation boundaries recede as the cost of inference declines and robotics accelerates. It’s as if we’re permanently on fast []

AI Growth Drives Global Competition for Electricity as Strategic Resource

(NaturalNews) The expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a surge in electricity demand that analysts say is reshaping global energy markets.A sin...

Why AI could be a financial ‘sludge’ buster

Regulators want to use the technology in their bid to cut red tape

Artificial intelligence economy and who really benefits from AI

Artificial intelligence economy and who really benefits from AI

Don’t expect the rising tide of AI to lift all boats

The brave new world of artificial intelligence (AI) is going to be a mixed and divisive blessing for governments – not least those of key Asian countries – as well as for financial markets. The AI revolution points to higher economic growth for economies linked to the tech supply chain, with others being left behind. It also signals the potential for financial crises. Balancing these risks will be tricky. The relative optimism, displayed in a recent report from the International Monetary Fund...

Companies spending the most on AI are growing jobs, Ramp study finds

Companies spending the most on AI are growing jobs, Ramp study finds

AI is about to fire millions. But there is a way to stop it

As artificial intelligence reaches human replacement-level capability, it is about to cut a swath of destruction through the American workforce, leaving millions of employees to deal with the mental, economic, and social consequences. Along with a mentor at the University of Florida, Dr. Joseph Thornton, we published a paper last year outlining a clinical construct []

Is AI making markets more or less efficient?

Is AI making markets more or less efficient?

When AI at the Workplace Is As Dangerous As DEI

When AI at the Workplace Is As Dangerous As DEI

Seven in 10 office workers are more productive because of AI

Seven in 10 office workers are more productive now thanks to AI – but not all are using it effectively.

The Battle Over AI Dominance Starts With The States

As artificial intelligence transforms the global economy, America faces a choice that will shape our economic and national security future for decades to come. Will we build the infrastructure needed to lead the AI age here in the United States, or will we allow regulatory barriers, political opposition, and short-sighted policymaking to push investment elsewhere? ...

A better AI future for workers won’t build itself, says journalist Sarah O’Connor

A better AI future for workers won’t build itself, says journalist Sarah O’Connor

AI Is Pushing Older Employees Straight Out of the Workforce, New Report Finds

AI-exposed jobs saw relative increases in total transitions out of work and specifically to unemployment. The post AI Is Pushing Older Employees Straight Out of the Workforce, New Report Finds appeared first on Futurism.

Tout le monde déteste l'IA

Les investisseurs n'ont d'yeux que pour elle ; ses architectes toisent les chefs d'État ; son usage se propage comme le feu dans la plaine : l'intelligence artificielle, dit-on, va transformer l'humanité. Mais l'humanité le veut-elle ? Face au Moloch numérique, qui exige le sacrifice de () / Mouvement de contestation, États-Unis, Technologies de l'information, Travail, Capitalisme

General : Use AI As Capacity Multiplier, Not Cost Cutting Tool  - Sim

PETALING JAYA, July 11 (Bernama) -- Businesses should harness artificial intelligence (AI) as a capacity multiplier while continuing to invest in human talent, instead of treating the technology solely as a cost-cutting tool, Entrepreneur and Cooperatives Development Minister Steven Sim said.

As Hollywood jobs dry up, workers are quietly training AI models to survive

As Hollywood jobs grow scarce, writers, editors, and executives are quietly taking AI training gigs just to make ends meet, even as the pay is unstable and the work chaotic.

The Techbro Goal of Unemploying Everyone Not Going As Planned

Mark Zuckerberg is not pleased that his investment in AI hasn’t led to the levels of mass unemployment he had hoped for. Or for people to really use it for much work related at all. As Reuters reports, Zuckerberg admitted during a town hall last week that AI agents in particular aren’t progressing as fast as he [] The post The Techbro Goal of Unemploying Everyone Not Going As Planned appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.

There is an AI bubble and it will burst...but is that such a bad thing? – The Economy of Everything

There is an AI bubble and it will burst...but is that such a bad thing? – The Economy of Everything

An AI proxy war could reshape Congress — before Congress reshapes AI

The massive spending and heated rhetoric in midterm races reflect the AI industry's political fault lines and competing visions of what the future should look like.