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The US Interstate highway system linked cities w/ suburbs, bulldozed minority neighborhoods, deepened Black segregation. Monumental work tinyurl.com/jmplauraww by MIT job candidate Laura Weiwu combines archival data + frontier tools to quantify the grossly unequal welfare impacts

Join us next Monday, January 22 (2–6pm EST) for our official launch event. We will host discussions with leaders and researchers who are Shaping the Future of Work. Join in-person (MIT Samberg Conference Center) or online. Learn more and register today: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/mit-sha…

Join Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and me for the launch of the MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, this Monday at MIT and online: 1) Engaging workers in shaping technology 2) Using AI for social good 3) Building better jobs x.com/MITshapingwork…

Apologies for the confusion: the NOĒMA article and the NBER working paper are one and the same (except for formatting diffs and a slightly different title, due to last minute changes). The NBER working paper includes a live link to the NOĒMA article.

In partnership with Schmidt Sciences, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and I are seeking funding proposals from early career researchers conducting innovative field experiments on the labor economics of frontier AI. Expressions of interest are due March 31. shapingwork.mit.edu/call-for-propo…

Our co-director David Autor explains how AI, when implemented as a decision support tool, can potentially revitalize middle-skill work by extending the value of expertise to workers with less formal education. Watch the full clip: youtu.be/66fYniAyCk0

What makes work valuable? Co-director David Autor explains how expertise makes certain types of labor more valuable than others — but only if that expertise is both useful and scarce. "Expertise is intrinsically a moving target ... It changes over time."

I'm honored that MIT Press selected my book with Liz Reynolds and David Mindell for this award.

Co-director David Autor, whose landmark research defined the "China Shock," argues that the US should invest in its own capacity to build cutting-edge technologies. However, blanket tariffs will not achieve this goal. Watch the full clip: youtu.be/tjdiEQdSmPQ

Co-director David Autor explains key findings from his recent NBER working paper, co-authored with our research affiliate David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Maggie Jones, and Bradley Setzler. Read the paper: shapingwork.mit.edu/research/place…

I'm delighted to announce this next chapter for MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative. Support from the Stone Foundation will enable us — and many others — to focus our efforts towards shaping a labor market that offers opportunity, mobility and economic security to a far broader set of people.

“I feel like if we use AI well, it's actually complementary to the knowledge that many people have.” Economist David Autor of MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative discusses changes to the labor market on a new episode of the Social Science Bites podcast. Listen now: ow.ly/H87450W2sNh

We asked co-director David Autor 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."

Does automation always result in job loss? MIT economist David Autor suggests there's more to the story. Learn more about his framework on evaluating the impact of automation on jobs: hai.stanford.edu/news/assessing…

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

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 Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson about our mission and goals for the years ahead.

"We’re not running out of jobs. We’re running out of workers." MIT Economist David Autor on how the rise of AI automation combined with declining birth rates will be one of the greatest challenges of our era.