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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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Stanford Digital Economy Lab · January 12, 2022

The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence

Stanford HAI · September 16, 2020

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

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

The Man Who Saw AI Coming

The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence

How the Pandemic Could Usher in the Era of Plug-and-Play Robots