Synthetic difference-in-differences, in Stata! Check out our article describing the package. Makes nice graphs illustrating time trends and unit weights. Comments welcome! arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11859…

Sure, we love bots that can write. But we're looking for a genuine human to join our team as a content contributor—a person who can communicate the story of the Lab and our groundbreaking research. Check out the job post 👇 stanford.io/3X1e2Ca

JUST ANNOUNCED: Catherine Tucker (Catherine Tucker) of MIT Sloan School of Management will join us on 2/27 for our first seminar of 2023: "Data Deserts, Algorithms, and Inequality." Registration open now. A free, hybrid event. digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/event/catherin…

Check out this 🔥 setup at Stanford Digital Economy Lab's AI & Society workshop Hybrid can work!!!

SILICON VALLEY BANK Some takeaways and thoughts regarding the SVB situation on a Friday afternoon before logging off for the weekend. First, what happened? 1/

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A new #AIIndex2023 is out now. This year’s report presents a more thorough technical performance chapter, original data about large language & multimodal models, and more. Find the latest trends in AI’s R&D, technical progress, and societal impact: hai.stanford.edu/research/ai-in…

Yann is right. AI isn't about to cause mass unemployment. But it is about to boost productivity causing disruptions to the labor market, with winners and losers. Policymakers, managers, technologist and the rest of us need to manage this transition to create shared prosperity.

LIVE: 2023 HAI Spring Symposium. How is AI influencing the arts, and how is the arts impacting tech? We’re bringing together diverse perspectives – from artists to technologists – to discuss creativity in the age of AI. Watch here: stanford.io/3okBKhu

Midjourney July 2022: July 2023:

Presented some new work on skill innovation at IC2S2! Show that innovation accelerated for technical skills, so worries about skill obsoletion are not unwarranted. Open-source + big-firm-backing helps skills diffuse. Boston College Carroll School Stanford HAI thx Mohammed Alsobay | محمد الصبي for the pic

Check out the new ADP National Employment out today. The report is a collab between the Lab and ADP Research.

📢 NEW JOB POSTING: We're searching for a postdoctoral associate to study ​​AI and the economic implications of aging populations in collaboration with the Stanford Center for Longevity. Learn more about this exciting opportunity 👇 tinyurl.com/3amfywya

Our seminar series is taking this week off, but we return Mon 10/23 when Ethan Mollick of The Wharton School joins us for "Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality." tinyurl.com/2u4azzxc

📢 The #AIIndex2024 is now live! This year’s report presents new estimates on AI training costs, a thorough analysis of the responsible AI landscape, and a new chapter about AI's impact on medicine and scientific discovery. Read the full report here: stanford.io/49CbsZp

1/3 Today, an anecdote shared by an invited speaker at #NeurIPS2024 left many Chinese scholars, myself included, feeling uncomfortable. As a community, I believe we should take a moment to reflect on why such remarks in public discourse can be offensive and harmful.

Hi Everyone! We're hosting our Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative AI and the Future of Work Conference on 5/21-22. Last year was a great event with some of the top papers on AI and work. Paper submission deadline is 3/3. Come join us The Wharton School. Submit papers here: forms.gle/ozJ5xEaktXDEeH…

Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced? Check out this The New York Times piece on a pivotal time for AI in the workplace, featuring Lab Digital Fellow Sarah Bana and Postdoctoral Fellow Ruyu Chen! nytimes.com/2025/07/07/bus…

Is AI already impacting the job market? A new paper from me, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Ruyu Chen at Stanford Digital Economy Lab digs into data from ADP. We find some of the ***first large-scale evidence of employment declines for entry-level workers in AI-exposed jobs.*** A thread on our paper:

My coauthor Bharat Chandar provides the definitive thread summarizing our new paper with Ruyu Chen about AI and the labor market. TL:DR. Employment has begun to decline for young workers in highly exposed occupations like coding and call centers, but older workers and workers who use