The robots were taking our jobs—or so we were told over a decade ago. The same warnings are regularly heard today about the ...

U. S. employers announced 153,074 job cuts in October – the worst October since 2003 – and headlines rushed to blame AI.

Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the ...

Amazon's internal documents reveal a sweeping transformation: the company aims to automate up to 75% of its operations by ...

U.S.-based economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson were awarded the Nobel prize in economic sciences on Monday for their work on wealth inequality between nations. Acemoglu and ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson. Photo: Getty Images. Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday for their research into why global inequality persists, ...

The economist, while extolling the disruptive powers of AI, says its current trajectory focuses on automation, driven by the ...

Born to Armenian parents in a middle-class family in Turkey in the late 1960s, Daron Acemoglu grew up during a tense period of political unrest and economic crises, and he would speculate why Turkey’s ...

It’s useful to think about Ford alongside the evolution of workers at Amazon. Presently the U.S.’s second largest employer, the New York Times cites “interviews and a cache of internal strategy ...

Daron Acemoglu, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, announced on Thursday that he, along with 22 other Nobel laureates, has endorsed Kamala Harris for the U.S. presidency. What Happened: This endorsement ...

MIT economist and freshly minted Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu (with whom I podcasted in 2017) has outlined three emerging “epochal” challenges for the American economy. If you tried to guess them, ...