Labor

It's a CEO's job to sell their product—not scare people that it'll ruin their lives.

The Trump administration has ambitious deadlines to accelerate scientific discovery, say Energy Department Undersecretary Darío Gil and Dell CEO Michael Dell. The 

Artificial intelligence has become part of everyday life for many Americans—at work, at school, in health care and beyond. As AI spreads, the public remains cautious, but somewhat open to its potential benefits.

AI's capacity to automate work and displace workers is substantial. But AI also has transformative potential to act as a force-multiplier for human skills and expertise by expanding worker capabilities. This potential arises from AI’s capacity to collaborate with workers, enabling them to be more effective at their existing tasks, tackle new tasks, and acquire new expertise. We define pro-worker technologies—including pro-worker AI—as technologies that make human skills and expertise more valuable.

The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau approved Charter Communications’ $34.5 billion acquisition of Cox Enterprises, Inc.’s residential cable, commercial fiber, and managed IT and cloud businesses.  As approved by the FCC, the resulting combination will provide significant benefits to Americans, including in rural parts of the country, from increased investment in rural infrastructure builds to more job opportunities on U.S.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is aiming to guide and encourage expanded artificial intelligence (AI) literacy training across public workforce and education systems. DOL created a new framework to be a resource for AI program design. The framework provides a working definition for AI literacy, a detailed set of foundational content areas of AI literacy, and effective delivery principles for AI education and skill development training.

Artificial intelligence’s impact on the labor market will depend on whether the technology automates or augments worker tasks. Early data on employment and wages in AI-affected industries suggest it may be doing both. The distinction between codified knowledge (for example, established information gleaned from textbooks) and tacit knowledge (understanding gained through experience) is important. If AI can replicate codified knowledge but not tacit knowledge, AI will automate jobs requiring codifiable (textbook) knowledge but complement jobs demanding experiential tacit knowledge.

The AI revolution may be upon us. But nobody knows for sure what it will mean for measures of overall economic well-being like GDP, unemployment, incomes, and asset prices.

In a world where more interactions are happening on video calls, glitches have become a normal, everyday occurrence. And sure, glitches happen, but they are no big deal, right? At least that’s what Zoom-reliant professionals and casual users told us: Glitches are annoying but harmless. But, as consumer psychologists who study the nuanced and often-overlooked factors that influence everyday judgments and decisions, we weren’t so sure.

Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Jerry Moran (R-KN) reintroduced the bipartisan Small Business Artificial Intelligence Training Act of 2026 that would authorize the Department of Commerce to work with the Small Business Administration to create and distribute artificial intelligence training resources and tools to help small businesses leverage artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations. The Small Business Artificial Intelligence Training Act of 2026: