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Identify key scientific and data barriers that impede accurate measurement and prediction of how artificial intelligence and automation affect the workforce.

March 25, 2019Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesOpen Access

Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

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MFMorgan R. FrankUniversity of Vermont DADavid AutorNational Bureau of Economic Research JBJames BessenBoston University

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Conceptual review reveals critical empirical and modeling barriers to tracking labor disruption across modern workforces, highlighting the need for resilient policy frameworks.

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Identify key scientific and data barriers that impede accurate measurement and prediction of how artificial intelligence and automation affect the workforce.
Synthesized literature on technological unemployment, occupational dynamics, and workforce automation.
Evaluated methodological gaps across data granularity, microlevel models of human-machine interaction, and macro-institutional factors.
Identified three primary research deficits: low-quality dynamic data on job tasks, missing empirical models for skill substitution and complementarity, and poor integration of macroeconomic drivers like trade and migration.
Proposed creating high-resolution longitudinal skill datasets and establishing decision frameworks that prioritize economic resilience over static equilibrium predictions.

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Frank et al. (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d95ed75e5bcb4e3b835dc2 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900949116

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Conceptual review reveals critical empirical and modeling barriers to tracking labor disruption across modern workforces, highlighting the need for resilient policy frameworks.

Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

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Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

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