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Equitable Growth's AI database collects research on how AI technologies may affect work, workers, and the labor market.
Measuring the economic impact of artificial intelligence is challenging due to its rapid evolution and varied effects on different U.S. worker groups. The overall influence of AI on the U.S. labor market is expected to be a combination of benefits and harms across various tasks, skills, occupations, individuals, locations, and timeframes. Equitable Growth's new AI research database is introduced as a valuable, searchable tool for tracking the evidence on this technology and its implications. The article emphasizes that while AI has the potential to drive significant economic growth, intentional policy interventions are essential to ensure that workers also share in these gains and are not negatively impacted.
Public discourse and worker sentiments regarding AI's future impact on the U.S. economy and labor market are polarized between optimism and apprehension. Academic research provides divergent findings; for example, some studies indicate that firms investing in AI tend to hire more junior workers while reducing middle and senior management roles, whereas other research suggests a decline in junior positions and an increase in mid-level roles as generative AI exposure grows. The collective body of research points to changes that could equally benefit or harm the economy. Critical questions about AI's long-term effects on the labor market remain unanswered, highlighting the need for accurate and sustained data collection. These questions include identifying which workers are most susceptible to AI's negative impacts, who stands to gain the most, and the overall aggregate effect of AI on work, workers, and the labor market. Equitable Growth addresses this need with its database of AI research, which is updated quarterly. This database helps users track developments, evaluate findings, and filter research by various criteria such as sector, study type, data source, and keywords, aiming to serve as a comprehensive knowledge hub in this dynamic field.