Wednesday, March 11, 2026

AI and the Labor Market

Are We Facing an AI Nightmare?
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-job-loss-scenarios-and-likely-public-responses-by-raghuram-g-rajan-2026-03
AI-doom scenarios are going viral because there are no easy public-policy responses to the problem of large-scale but not universal technological unemployment. Society’s best hope is a Goldilocks scenario, where the AI rollout is not too fast, and where the industry is not too oligopolistic.
 
AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-isnt-lightening-workloads-its-making-them-more-intense-e417dd2c
The technology is increasing the speed, density and complexity of work rather than reducing it, a new analysis of 164,000 people’s work activity shows.