Will AI take over the smartest part of your job, or just the boring bits? A recent FT article highlights @davidautor's recent research on how automation can raise or lower expertise across jobs.

Why are some countries rich and others poor? How do institutions drive prosperity — or inequality? @baselinescene unpacks these questions and more on this week's @planetmoney episode.

"One of the great challenges of our era is to figure out how to create tools, AIs, that support people using their expertise better and learning faster.". Hear more from @davidautor on the Possible podcast with @reidhoffman and @AriaIrene:

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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….

In Prospect Magazine, our director @DAcemogluMIT argues that one key word is missing from the tech industry’s discussion about AGI: choice. 4 key choices could determine how AI will impact society, jobs, democracy, and geopolitics.

The MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative is now the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work. Hear from our co-directors @DAcemogluMIT, @davidautor, and @baselinescene about our mission and goals for the years ahead.

(4/4) Read the full paper here: #econtwitter.

(3/4) But automation has lowered wages and increased employment in occupations where it eliminated expert tasks, such as dispatchers.

(2/4) Over the past four decades, automation has raised wages and reduced employment in occupations where it eliminated inexpert tasks, such as proofreaders.

(1/4) When some job tasks are automated, do the tasks that remain become more or less valuable? 🧵👇. In a new working paper, @davidautor and @ProfNeilT argue the answer depends on how much expertise is required for the tasks still done by humans.

This Wednesday, June 18 at 5:30 PM BST (12:30 PM EDT), co-director @DAcemogluMIT will deliver a public lecture at the #LSEFestival: Visions for the Future, exploring how we can reimagine and revitalize liberal democracy. Register to watch online:

A recent article from @StanfordHAI highlights insights from co-director @davidautor on how automation affects jobs — and why focusing solely on a job's exposure to automation misses the point.

We asked co-director @davidautor if he thinks US tariffs and trade policy signal the end of the globalization era. He explains: "I don't think globalization is over, but I think the US leadership of globalization may be over."

"You shouldn’t think that technology is either good or bad. You need to think about it in relation to the value of your expertise. Does it commodify it . or does it make it more valuable?". Hear more from co-director @davidautor on @socialscibites:

RT @DAcemogluMIT: Dear followers, I will be giving a talk at the LSE Festival on June 18 at 5:30 BST. You can register to join online here.….

"Our concern is that AI, which is made possible by our institutions, is pulled in a direction that undermines democracy.". Read insights from co-director @baselinescene in the @IMFNews Finance & Development Magazine:

RT @socialscibites: “I feel like if we use AI well, it's actually complementary to the knowledge that many people have.”. Economist @davida….

In this video from @mitsmr, co-director @DAcemogluMIT advises business leaders not to get taken in by AI hype, but to leverage technology "to create better and newer goods and services . not just cutting costs, but doing new things.".