Tag: labor market disruption

• Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence

  January 3, 2026

  On September 29, 2025, Bharat Chandar, postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and Ruyu Chen, research scientist at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, presented the findings of their… more ›

• Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

  October 22, 2025

  Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE8.FwGC.6M9rnks4nUaO&smid=url-share more ›

• Reuters Econ World: Robots

  May 28, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/PH9SwAT There’s a global race for robot supremacy.  From Shanghai to Silicon Valley, companies are trying to develop humanoids that can take on physical work. China is emerging as… more ›