Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI … humans can be productively employed. Recent technological change has been biased towards automation, with insufficient focus … tendency is to develop AI in the direction of further automation, but this might mean missing out on the promise of the "right …

economic growth explosion. In this paper, we critically analyse this claim. We clarify how AI affects the ideas production … function (IPF) and propose three models relating innovation, AI and population: AI as a research-augmenting technology; AI as … researcher scale enhancing technology; and AI as a facilitator of innovation. We show, performing model simulations calibrated on …

supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …-skilled workers. Labor market tightness and external demand are plausible mechanisms for the labor-innovation nexus. …

has examined complementarities in production, we propose that sectors make similar input decisions because of … complementarities in information acquisition. Because information about driving forces has a high fixed cost of production and a low … correlated production choices. This mechanism amplifies the effects of common shocks, relative to sectoral shocks. …

allocation of tasks to capital and labor – the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in …We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor … tasks it was previously engaged in, shifts the task content of production against labor because of a displacement effect. As …

developments, some argue that large shares of jobs are “at risk of automation”, spurring public fears of massive job-losses and …. First, the chapter discusses estimates of automation potentials, showing that many estimates are severely upward biased …

ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …

automation further compound the challenge of job creation, which is already quite sizable in historical perspective. Failure to …