Danielle Li

Professor Danielle Li wrote: "As workers, people should think about how to use AI to expand their skills: whether by building complementary capabilities or by finding ways to scale their expertise through AI systems. As citizens, they should press for policies that give workers clearer rights over the data generated by their work and compensation for it."

A paper by professor Danielle Li and co-author showed that being a good salesperson increased the probability of being promoted into a management position, but was a negative predictor of managerial quality. In other words, the performance of a sales hotshot's new subordinates tended to go backwards.

A recent study co-authored by professors Pierre Azoulay and Danielle Li looked at drugs that were developed through NIH-funded research and approved by the Food and Drug Administration since 2000. More than half those drugs would probably not have been developed if the NIH was operating with a 40% smaller budget. "We can't say, 'But for that grant, that specific drug would not have come into existence,'" said Azoulay. But fewer drugs overall would have made it to market, he said.

A new study by professors Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, and co-authors, has revealed the potential impacts a smaller National Institutes of Health (NIH) would have had on past drug development. If the NIH budget had been 40% smaller from 1980 to 2007 — the level of cuts that President Donald Trump has proposed for the agency — the science underlying numerous drugs approved in the 21st century would not have been funded, according to the analysis. "Cuts today are going to have effects starting 15 years from now, roughly, and then accelerating from there," Azoulay said.