Getting AI Datacenters in the UK: Why the UK Needs to Create Special Compute Zones; and How to Do It
More to Lose: The Adverse Effect of High Performance Ranking on Employees’ Pre-implementation Attitudes Toward the Integration of Powerful AI Aids
McDonald’s Touchscreen Kiosks Were Feared As Job Killers. Instead, Something Surprising Happened
AI Doesn’t Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers: There’s now data to back up what freelancers have been saying for months
Election Workers Are Drowning in Records Requests. AI Chatbots Could Make It Worse: Experts worry that election deniers could weaponize chatbots to overwhelm and slow down local officials
Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to Mechanizing Telephone Operation
Who Is AI Replacing? The Impact of Generative AI on Online Freelancing Platforms
Over 3 Decades, Tech Obliterated Media: My Front-Row Seat to a Slow-Moving Catastrophe
AI and Jobs: Has the Inflection Point Arrived? Evidence from an Online Labor Platform
Consulting Giants See AI Shaving Years Off the Path to Partner
Computer Center Sabotage, 1968–1971: Luddism, Black Studies, and the Diversion of Technological Progress
Explosive growth from AI automation: A review of the arguments
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LLMs as Workers in Human-Computational Algorithms? Replicating Crowdsourcing Pipelines with LLMs
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Structural Change and Internal Labor Migration: Evidence from the Great Depression
Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology
People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers: AI software and voice cloners simulate distracted saps willing to stay on the phone forever—or until callers finally give up
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Today was the first day that I could definitively say that GPT-4 has saved me a substantial amount of tedious work
When and How Artificial Intelligence Augments Employee Creativity
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The Characteristics and Geographic Distribution of Robot Hubs in US Manufacturing Establishments
GPT-3 as Knowledge Worker: A Zero-Shot Evaluation of AI CPA Capabilities
AI, Ageing and Brain-Work Productivity: Technological Change in Professional Japanese Chess
The Wild, Wonderful World of Estate Sales: The estate-sale industry is fragile and persistent in a way that doesn’t square with the story of the world as we have come to expect it
The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation, and Income Inequality
What is the point of computers? A question for pure mathematicians
Hyperspecialization and hyperscaling: A resource-based theory of the digital firm
Cognitive Performance in Remote Work: Evidence from Professional Chess
Technological change and obsolete skills: Evidence from men’s professional tennis
Does the rise of robotic technology make people healthier?
The Life Cycle of Businesses and their Internal Organization
ChinAI #137: Year 3 of ChinAI: Reflections on the newsworthiness of machine translation
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The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies
Transatlantic Technologies: The Role of ICT in the Evolution of US and European Productivity Growth
AI Helps Warehouse Robots Pick Up New Tricks: Backed by machine learning luminaries, Covariant.ai’s bots can handle jobs previously needing a human touch
‘What’s Wrong With The Way I Talk?’ The Effect Of Sound Motion Pictures On Actor Careers
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The Robot Revolution: Managerial and Employment Consequences for Firms
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics
‘Automation’ of Manufacturing in the Late 19th Century: The Hand and Machine Labor Study
Profiling the international academic ghost writers who are providing low-cost essays and assignments for the contract cheating industry
The Price of Nails since 1700: Even Simple Products Experienced Large Price Declines
The Economic Impact of Moore’s Law: Evidence from When it Faltered
Is US Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the 6 Headwinds
Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency: why human space exploration will tell us more about the Solar System than will robotic exploration alone
Americans Do IT Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
InterNyet: why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network
Economics Of The Singularity: Stuffed into skyscrapers by the billion, brainy bugbots will be the knowledge workers of the future
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Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance
Certificates and Computers: The Remaking of Wall Street, 1967–1971
Balancing Act: How to Capture Knowledge Without Killing It
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The U.S. Productivity Slowdown: an Economy-Wide and Industry-Level Analysis
General Purpose Technologies and the Rise & Fall of Great Powers
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