David Autor
@davidautor
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RT @MITshapingwork: Co-director @davidautor explains findings from his new research with @ProfNeilT. Automation (including AI) can make a j….
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RT @BlueprintMIT: How can the U.S. best respond to China’s rapid innovative sector growth?. In a New York Times op-ed, Blueprint Co-Directo….
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The Trump administration is fighting the last war while China marches toward dominating the industries of the future.
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RT @MITshapingwork: "One of the great challenges of our era is to figure out how to create tools, AIs, that support people using their expe….
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RT @reidhoffman: "We’re not running out of jobs. We’re running out of workers.". MIT Economist David Autor on how the rise of AI automation….
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RT @MITshapingwork: The MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative is now the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shapin….
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RT @MITshapingwork: (1/4) When some job tasks are automated, do the tasks that remain become more or less valuable? 🧵👇. In a new working pa….
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RT @StanfordHAI: Does automation always result in job loss? MIT economist @davidautor suggests there's more to the story. Learn more about….
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MIT economist David Autor argues that focusing on exposure alone misses the nuances of how experts and nonexperts experience task shifts.
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RT @MITshapingwork: We asked co-director @davidautor if he thinks US tariffs and trade policy signal the end of the globalization era. He….
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RT @socialscibites: “I feel like if we use AI well, it's actually complementary to the knowledge that many people have.”. Economist @davida….
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I'm delighted to announce this next chapter for @MITshapingwork. Support from the Stone Foundation will enable us — and many others — to focus our efforts towards shaping a labor market that offers opportunity, mobility and economic security to a far broader set of people.
Blueprint Co-Director @davidautor and Affiliates @DAcemogluMIT and @baselinescene will launch the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work in July, thanks to a generous gift from the Stone Foundation. Read more:
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RT @MITshapingwork: Co-director @davidautor explains key findings from his recent NBER working paper, co-authored with our research affilia….
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RT @MITshapingwork: Co-director @davidautor, whose landmark research defined the "China Shock," argues that the US should invest in its own….
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I'm honored that MIT Press selected my book with @LizBeckReynolds and David Mindell for this award.
.@mitpress announced the winners of its Faculty Book award. Congratulations to @MITEcon professor @davidautor, co-author of the winning entry “The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines.”
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RT @MITshapingwork: What makes work valuable?. Co-director @davidautor explains how expertise makes certain types of labor more valuable th….
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RT @MITshapingwork: Our co-director @davidautor explains how AI, when implemented as a decision support tool, can potentially revitalize mi….
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In partnership with @schmidtsciences, @DAcemogluMIT, @baselinescene and I are seeking funding proposals from early career researchers conducting innovative field experiments on the labor economics of frontier AI. Expressions of interest are due March 31.
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Apologies for the confusion: the NOĒMA article and the NBER working paper are one and the same (except for formatting diffs and a slightly different title, due to last minute changes). The NBER working paper includes a live link to the NOĒMA article.
@cremieuxrecueil Not sure how this differs from the NBER paper (if at all).
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Recognizing this potential, we should ask not what AI will do to us, but what we want it to do for us.
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My Noema magazine article is not a forecast but a claim about what is attainable -- an opportunity that is technologically plausible, economically coherent and morally compelling.
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AI doesn’t have to be a job destroyer. It offers us the opportunity to extend expertise to a larger set of workers.
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Although I know it's unfashionable to be optimistic about AI's potential for work and workers, here's why I think AI offers the labor market a great opportunity.
What if AI — used well — could actually help rebuild the middle class?. @DavidAutor argues just that.
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