U. S. employers announced 153,074 job cuts in October – the worst October since 2003 – and headlines rushed to blame AI.

The robots were taking our jobs—or so we were told over a decade ago. The same warnings are regularly heard today about the ...

The economist, while extolling the disruptive powers of AI, says its current trajectory focuses on automation, driven by the ...

Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the ...

Daron Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2024 Nobel Laureate in economics. He has researched how successful nations rely on strong, reliable institutions. He ...

In a move set to redefine American labor and retail, Amazon is accelerating its push to automate warehouse operations.

Amazon's internal documents reveal a sweeping transformation: the company aims to automate up to 75% of its operations by 2033, potentially avoiding the hiring of 600,000 U.S. workers. This move, ...

obel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, who’s been dubbed one of the “World’s Top Thinkers” by the popular press, will receive to the 2025 Sage-CASBS Award, the Center for Advanced Study in the ...

But a big slice of that strength reflects front-loaded AI capex – data centers, chips, power – whose spillovers into day-to-day production are still thin on the ground. Multiple sell-side trackers ...