This week's episode of Hard Fork unpacks "the loudest warning yet about AI and jobs" with Lab Director @erikbryn.bsky.social! Listen on Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5IAn...

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"Beyond the corpus of current human achievement, he said, exists 'this much bigger space, bigger than you know, as big as you can imagine, of things that have never been done before.'” Read @theatlantic.com's new profile on @erikbryn.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

How AI will change the job market, and how to prepare: insights from 16 top economists, including SIEPR's @nickbloom.bsky.social and Bharat Chandar, @stanforddel.bsky.social economist. Gift link ⤵️ tinyurl.com/4r25y7zw #FutureofWork #AI

The Transformation Tracker is part of the AI Economic Indicators project! It tracks progress toward transformative AI: a technology-powered economic transformation at least as significant as the Industrial Revolution but unfolding in a vastly shorter time. Explore here: transformation.stanford.edu

What happens to wealth and value (human or otherwise) in a world with more and more advanced AI? Postdoctoral Fellow Phil Trammell joined @aleximas.bsky.social (Google DeepMind)) to unpack the question on the Dwarkesh Podcast. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj-k...

"A lot of people are under the mistaken idea that the only way that you get productivity from A.I. is by removing labor costs." — @erikbryn.bsky.social @nytimes.com looks at a case where AI makes workers more productive, rather than replacing them: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/b...

Will AI lead to fewer or more jobs? What's the danger of AI that mimics human intelligence? And can AI create opportunities for workers? On @nxthompson.bsky.social's "Most Interesting Thing in AI," @erikbryn.bsky.social challenges both AI optimists and pessimists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpgj...

Hope you had a great holiday weekend! Some recent news to get up to speed (and let’s be honest, put off that workload a little longer)… 🧵1/10

"The possibility that AI will automate most cognitive labor is worth taking seriously. How should we adapt to this transformation?" @randomwalker.bsky.social's DEL seminar, "Adapting to the Transformation of Knowledge Work," is now available! Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/uiTwQG1ZyTw

This week, Tom Mitchell welcomes Bruce Buchanan, a PhD Philosopher turned machine learning researcher, to talk about his unique contributions to machine learning history. Watch the newest episode of Machine Learning: How Did We Get Here? here: youtu.be/nZNCjf-WOfk

Those who missed Kristina McElheran's seminar yesterday are in luck: "The Rise of Industrial AI in America: Microfoundations of the Productivity J-curve(s): is now available to view online! Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/pKYydu-7SwM

New podcast ep for your Monday commute! Tom Mitchell talks with John Laird (Center for Intregrated Cognition) about 40 years of trying to build AI agents that replicate the full range of human cognitive abilities. 🍎Listen on Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

"Do you think the problem of speech recognition is solved?" This week @kaifulee.bsky.social, CEO of 01.ai, sits down with Tom Mitchell (@cmu.edu)to talk about decades of discovery and breakthrough in the field of machine learning and speech recognition. 📺Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/jyvsnXosKAo

What is the relationship between neural network approaches in machine learning, and real neural networks in the brain? In his latest podcast, Tom Mitchell (@cmu.edu) talks with Jay McClelland (Stanford University) about modeling cognition in the brain. 📺Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/GArl9AZdCJk

Congratulations to Lab Digital Fellow Angela Aristidou, Digital Fellow @avinashc.bsky.social, and Research Scientist David Nguyen for being a part of Google AI's inaugural group of global economic scholars! ai.google/economy/ai-e...

How do AI agents influence knowledge work? @suproteem.cc's talk at the DEL Seminar Series is now available on YouTube! Moderated by @erikbryn.bsky.social, Sarkar discusses three projects on the Economics of Applied AI. Watch here: youtu.be/4_T4aTLWtwY

When Daphne Koller wanted to see her machine learning research make a real-world impact, she left academia to build @insitro.bsky.social. Her conversation with Tom Mitchell ( @cmu.edu) on probabilistic models, AI in biotech, and more is our latest podcast episode! 📹YouTube: youtu.be/DReHVP8rpSw

Tranformative AI could drive innovation, but it may also amplify mis- and disinformation, and leave corrective efforts underprovided. How do we respond? Watch Joseph Stiglitz and Màxim Ventura-Bolet discuss their Digitalist Papers essay here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpMj...

For those who missed Zoë Hitzig's visit to our Seminar Series, it's now available on YouTube! Watch "How People Use ChatGPT," moderated by Director @erikbryn.bsky.social, here: youtu.be/czrKIiuHZ-U

New podcast episode for you! The field of Statistics enters the Machine Learning conversation, as Tom Mitchell (@cmu.edu) talks with Michael I. Jordan of Inria Paris! Watch here: youtu.be/BfBxS2rEH3k

🎙️New episode of Machine Learning: How Did We Get Here? Tom talks to Ross Quinlan, the person who introduced the idea of decision tree learning to the ML community. ▶️Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5EF0...

How can experimentation shape AI policymaking for the better? Ajay Agrawal (@rotmanschool.bsky.social) discusses his essay (co-authored with @joshgans.bsky.social) from The Digitalist Papers here: youtu.be/Zesl51M6WT0?...

What is reinforcement learning? What does one of its most common framings miss? And how did one of its most influential researchers get into the field? 2024 Turing Award winner @RichardSSutton joins Tom on today’s Machine Learning: How Did We Get Here?: open.spotify.com/episode/6b7n...

🎙️New episode of "Machine Learning: How Did We Get Here?" Tom Mitchell (@cmu.edu) and @yann-lecun.bsky.social, Executive Chairman of AMI Labs and Professor at NYU, discuss how technological advances and commercial forces shaped AI history. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5AbF...

Is the AI J-curve taking shape? Lab Director @erikbryn.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com examines how we might finally be seeing that productivity growth we've been waiting for. www.ft.com/content/4b51...

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It’s Monday 10/6 – hope you enjoyed your Oktoberfest! Let’s put away those lederhosen and check out some recent news… 🧵1/11

Our "Canaries in the Coal Mine?" seminar is now available! Watch Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen break down their landmark research on AI's impact on employment: youtu.be/tqYo-dfL1go

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📺Watch Postdoctoral Fellow Bharat Chandar break down how AI is reshaping the job market for @cbsnews.com! www.cbsnews.com/video/why-ai...

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✍️The Lab has released a NEW STUDY with some of the first large-scale evidence of AI’s impact on entry-level employment! Lab Director @erikbryn.bsky.social, Ruyu Chen & Bharat Chandar used @ADP data to reveal 6 key facts about AI's labor market impact: digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications...

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Lab Director @erikbryn.bsky.social spoke with @nytimes.com's Larry Sommer about tracking labor statistics -- read his thoughts at the link! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/b...

"We are investing so much in driving the capabilities for hundreds of billions of dollars, and we're investing very little in ensuring that leads to widely shared prosperity." Director @erikbryn.bsky.social discussed AI and future of work with @npr.org's Steve Inskeep. www.npr.org/2025/08/05/n...

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How can everyone experience the "magic" of the AI revolution? Watch Lab affiliate @susanathey.bsky.social’s talk on the implications of AI on the organisation of industry and work at #G20SouthAfrica: www.youtube.com/live/okDGsZa...

“Governments will play a key role…in whether we actually develop the technology that will help lower-skilled workers become more productive by using AI to augment them with expertise that previously was difficult to acquire.”

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