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What is Work For? Labor, Politics, and Meaning in the Age of AI
Julian Jacobs
This paper investigates the role of work in providing meaning, purpose, community, and other non-monetary benefits. Using an original cross-national survey of 8,234 working-age adu…
AI in Science: Early Insights
Mihai Codreanu, Alex Imas, Juan Mateos-Garcia +15
Scientific progress is a key driver of economic growth and prosperity. There is great excitement - but also concerns - about the impacts of AI on science, but so far little data. W…
Google's AI & Economy ATLAS v1.0: Mapping Gemini Usage in the Economy
Zanna Iscenko, Scott Strand, Yiyuan Chen +15
This paper introduces the AI & Economy ATLAS (Activity, Task, Landscape, and Adoption Study), an ongoing economic research initiative using Google AI usage data. The first iteratio…
Did US Worker Retraining Reduce Participant Automation Exposure?
Julian Jacobs, Jordan Canedy
This paper evaluates whether the U.S. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) supported American worker resilience to technological automation. Analyzing over 23 million WI…