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• Is the Human Workforce Doomed with the Rise of AI? New Research Says Fears Are Overblown

  James Bessen, Michael Impink, Lydia Reichensperger, and Robert Seamans featured in an NYU press release for their research on the  business of AI startups.  

• Industry 4.0: Get with the times

  James Bessen quoted in Southeast Asia Globe regarding historical increases in employment in response to automation.  

• Automation, Labor Market Institutions, and the Middle Class

  James Bessen spoke at the Brookings Institution on the effects of automation on employment and wages.  

• AI, Automation, and Jobs

  James Bessen interviewed in The Nikkei on the effects of AI and automation on jobs.

• Better-educated, higher-paid workers will be ‘most affected’ by AI, per new study

  James Bessen quoted in Fast Company, on the effects of automation on all workers, from manual and managerial.  

• The Jobs Robots Can’t Do (At Least Not Yet)

  James Bessen quoted in Frontline about the effects of automation on workers.

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