Innovation and Technology

Business Insider quotes Michael Blank, SIEPR faculty fellow, explaining how CEOs are using layoffs to signal to investors that their AI investments are paying off (and how a weak labor market means they can easily refill positions AI can’t replace).

Erika McEntarfer, a research scholar at SIEPR, explains in a NPR segment why it's hard to know at this point how much of an impact artificial intelligence is having on worker productivity.

A proposal in Congress to establish a market structure for crypto, while commendable, has rules for decentralized finance (DeFi) that could weaken U.S. power over the global financial system, warns SIEPR's Amit Seru in a new Barron's op-ed.

Bloomberg features insights from Neale Mahoney, SIEPR's director, on the rise of consumer "drip pricing" and the distorted incentives the now-popular practice gives companies.

The New York Times highlights research by SIEPR Senior Fellow Charles "Chad" Jones into how much money the government would have to spend to mitigate AI's existential threat.

Bloomberg reports that, amid the federal government shutdown, ADP will now release weekly jobs data, compiled with SIEPR Senior Fellow Erik Brynjolfsson's Digital Economy Lab.

Jared Bernstein, SIEPR policy fellow and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, appears on NPR to talk about why he thinks the AI investment frenzy could end badly.

It's time to call artificial intelligence the third bubble of the century, argue SIEPR's Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings in a New York Times op-ed.

The Wall Street Journal highlights, given the government shutdown, a monthly jobs report produced by SIEPR Senior Fellow Erik Brynjolfsson's Digital Economy Lab and ADP.

In a New York Times op-ed, SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru explains why pending federal legislation favoring privately-issued digital currencies is bad policy.

The Economist cites work by SIEPR's Chad Jones and Nick Bloom in suggesting that AI could offset one potential downside to a shrinking world: fewer new ideas.

SIEPR's Mark Lemley, in a Financial Times op-ed, advocates for antitrust policies that prevent monopolists from forming in the first place.

SIEPR's Erik Brynjolfsson talks with American Public Media's Marketplace Tech about the mismatch between AI's capabilities and workers' needs.

The Economist credits research by SIEPR's Greg Buchak in describing how regulatory red tape only partially explains commercial banking's retreat from traditional lending.

SIEPR's Amit Seru warns in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the recently passed Genius Act doesn't go far enough in regulating the digital currency known as stablecoins.

The Financial Times features SIEPR's Matteo Maggiori and his Global Capital Allocation Project in a story about how the U.S. and China are turning to economic warfare.