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The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in workplaces is transforming how we work. While existing research on human-AI collaboration at work often prioritizes performance, less is known about their experiential outcomes. Through…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kuntal Ghosh , Marc Hassenzahl , Shadan Sadeghian

Generative AI has the potential to transform how firms produce output. Yet, credible evidence on how AI is actually substituting for human labor remains limited. In this paper, we study firm-level substitution between contracted online…

General Economics · Economics 2026-02-03 Ryan Stevens

The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in workplaces stands to change the way humans work, with job satisfaction intrinsically linked to work life. Existing research on human-AI collaboration tends to prioritize performance over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Kuntal Ghosh , Shadan Sadeghian

Generative AI is altering work processes, task composition, and organizational design, yet its effects on employment and the macroeconomy remain unresolved. In this review, we synthesize theory and empirical evidence at three levels. First,…

General Economics · Economics 2025-09-22 R. Maria del Rio-Chanona , Ekkehard Ernst , Rossana Merola , Daniel Samaan , Ole Teutloff

The emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) labor, including AI agents and autonomous systems operating at near-zero marginal cost, reduces the marginal productivity of human labor, ultimately pushing wages toward zero. As AGI…

General Economics · Economics 2025-02-12 Pascal Stiefenhofer

Financial firms have gone through three major technological waves: computerization in the 1980s and 1990s, the rise of indexing and passive investing in the 2000s and 2010s, and the AI and automation wave from roughly 2015 to the present.…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-04-23 Lu Yu , Xiang Li

This article develops the concept of the agentic economy and diagnoses its measurable preconditions: a transition in which economic action is increasingly distributed among humans, AI agents, industrial robots, executable protocols, compute…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-05-20 Davit Gondauri , Mikheil Batiashvili

Transformative AI technologies have the potential to reshape critical aspects of society in the near future. However, in order to properly prepare policy initiatives for the arrival of such technologies accurate forecasts and timelines are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Ross Gruetzemacher , David Paradice , Kang Bok Lee

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging technology that has the potential to transform many aspects of society, including the economy, healthcare, and transportation. This article synthesizes recent research literature on the global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Chandregowda Pachegowda

AI and related technologies are reshaping jobs and tasks, either by automating or augmenting human skills in the workplace. Many researchers have been working on estimating if and to what extent jobs and tasks are exposed to the risk of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Emilio Colombo , Fabio Mercorio , Mario Mezzanzanica , Antonio Serino

In the coming decade, artificially intelligent agents with the ability to plan and execute complex tasks over long time horizons with little direct oversight from humans may be deployed across the economy. This chapter surveys recent…

General Economics · Economics 2025-09-03 Gillian K. Hadfield , Andrew Koh

AI is transforming human labor at an unprecedented pace - improving 10$\times$ per year in training effectiveness. This paper analyzes how society can adapt to AI-driven human-labor automation (HLA), using Bernardi et al.'s societal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yuval Rymon

As the digital economy grows increasingly intangible, traditional productivity measures struggle to capture the true economic impact of artificial intelligence (AI). AI systems capable of cognitive work significantly enhance productivity,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-05-15 Alex Farach , Alexia Cambon , Jared Spataro

We investigate whether and why people might adjust compensation for workers who use AI tools. Across 13 studies (N = 4,956), participants consistently lowered compensation for workers who used AI compared to those who did not. This "AI…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-06 Jin Kim , Shane Schweitzer , David De Cremer , Christoph Riedl

Despite widespread speculation about artificial intelligence's impact on the future of work, we lack systematic empirical evidence about how these systems are actually being used for different tasks. Here, we present a novel framework for…

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will transform modern life by reshaping transportation, health, science, finance, and the military. To adapt public policy, we need to better anticipate these advances. Here we report the results…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Katja Grace , John Salvatier , Allan Dafoe , Baobao Zhang , Owain Evans

We characterize the optimal tax policy in an economy with human manual and cognitive labor, physical capital, and artificial intelligence (AI). Extending the dynamic taxation setup of Slavik and Yazici (2014), we find that it is optimal to…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-19 Jakub Growiec , Klaus Prettner , Maciej Szkróbka

Work must be reshaped in the upcoming new era characterized by new challenges and the presence of new technologies and computational tools. Over-automation seems to be the driver of the digitalization process. Substitution is the paradigm…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-07 David Pastor-Escuredo

We examine whether substantial AI automation could accelerate global economic growth by about an order of magnitude, akin to the economic growth effects of the Industrial Revolution. We identify three primary drivers for such growth: 1) the…

General Economics · Economics 2024-07-16 Ege Erdil , Tamay Besiroglu

Real-effort tasks, in which participants perform cognitively costly activities whose outcomes depend on actual performance, are widely used in experimental economics. Their validity, however, rests on the assumption that a human performs…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Federico Belotti , Stefano Coniglio , Antonio Cosma , Francesco Fallucchi