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• 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.

• There’s an Automation Crisis Underway Right Now, It’s Just Mostly Invisible

  James Bessen quoted in Gizmodo on the impact of automation on workers in the Netherlands.  

• Should We Break Up Big Tech?

  Timothy Simcoe quoted in BU Today, on keeping tech firms from getting too big.  

• Will We Restrain the Robots to Protect the Dignity of Labor?

  James Bessen cited in the Independent about the effects of automation on jobs.

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