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No Widespread Displacement, but the AI Employment Gap for Young Workers Has Widened to 19%

In August 2026, the authors of "Canaries in the Coal Mine?" published a revised version of their paper, with a larger set of data granting a fuller view of AI's impact on employment.

Stanford Digital Economy Lab · July 13, 2026

“We Must Act Now”: Sixteen Nobel Laureates Join Leading Economists and AI Researchers in Call to Prepare for AI’s Economic Transformation

The Atlantic · June 29, 2026

The Man Who Saw AI Coming

"More than a decade ago, the economist Erik Brynjolfsson made a prediction: AI would change everything."

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The Atlantic · September 1, 2024

The Jobs Equation—Erik Brynjolfsson

Stanford HAI · June 7, 2024

Digital Advertisers Often Fund Misinformation Unwittingly

Nature · June 5, 2024

What we do — and don’t — know about how misinformation spreads online

ADP · April 19, 2022

ADP Research Institute® Collaborates with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab to Advance Labor Market Analysis

Harvard Business Review · February 11, 2022

Economics of Transformative AI

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