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How to use generative AI to augment your workforce
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Artificial intelligence can be useful in the workplace, but humans have to first define what success looks like, according to MIT Sloan’s Danielle Li.
The pros and cons of ICOs for entrepreneurs
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How can an initial coin offering fund a startup? An MIT expert on the advantages and the unanswered questions.
How AI helps acquired businesses grow
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To tap the power of artificial intelligence to grow a small company, make conservative tech bets and consider what work is ripe for augmentation.
Codeterminining the Future of Work: Lessons From Germany
What can we learn from the way management and labor leaders in Germany are working together to address the future impacts of technology on business and the workplace? In this article, Thomas A. Kochan, Wilma B. Liebman, and Inez von Weitershausen draw on insights from a September 2018 event on this ...
New study shows why AI adoption may be slow
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In the short term, artificial intelligence systems may be too costly to use for most tasks.
IWER April Newsletter: Generative AI and the Future of Work
The April 2023 issue of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) newsletter is available online. The theme of this edition of the newsletter is "Generative AI and the Future of Work"
Consumers prefer early entrants in new markets, but 2nd movers can still win
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Consumers approve of firms that do the work to make an industry seem legitimate. Those that free-ride on that “legitimation work” are seen as less authentic.
Why this Labor Day Is different
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This Hot Labor Summer, workers are demanding not just increased wages, but what labor expert Thomas Kochan calls “a new social contract.”