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AI, Work & the Economy

Whether AI replaces or empowers workers is a political choice, not a technical destiny. These pieces examine automation, productivity, and the economics of an AI labour market.

Podcast 12 Feb 2026 · 43 min

Can Europe Catch Up on AI? with Carl Frey

Progress is not inevitable

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Essay 1 Dec 2025

Why AI can't learn on the job

And how that might change

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Essay 24 Nov 2025

Efficiency vs Learning

Are search engines more pedagogical than chatbots?

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Essay 14 Oct 2025

Teachers won't be automated

But some of their tasks might be

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Newsletter 3 Oct 2025

What jobs is AI bad at?

Research agendas for transformative AI and wages, TFP Newsletter #3

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Newsletter 22 Aug 2025

Chinese universities embrace AI, digital taxes and AI bubbles

AI might hurt developer productivity, and how much energy does it use?, TFP Newsletter #1

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