Future of Work

Emerging insights suggest road maps, policy recommendations, and calls for action regarding generative artificial intelligence.

In the short term, artificial intelligence systems may be too costly to use for most tasks.

Ideas about how to best deploy generative artificial intelligence, how it will affect the workforce, and how it should be regulated.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere. But it’s humble leadership that leads our list.

Extended reality technologies such as digital twins, virtual reality, and the metaverse introduce new ways of working and can drive higher business value.

A new book from The MIT Press identifies nudges, interventions, and experiments to help companies de-bias, attract diverse talent, and manage the workforce better.

Generative AI can boost highly skilled worker productivity, if organizations establish a culture of accountability and encourage role reconfiguration.

New research explores worker engagement, its impact on job performance, and its connection to a worker’s level of emotional stability.

MIT’s Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson make the case for federal policies to encourage the development of AI that complements workers.

This Hot Labor Summer, workers are demanding not just increased wages, but what labor expert Thomas Kochan calls “a new social contract.”