Researchers today are trying to understand how information technology affects innovation, productivity, and economic growth while studying the impact of political and legal ground rules. Academics featured here are looking at the potential to create jobs and keep policymakers aware of emerging trends in technology.
“Automation-fueled inequality is not an act of God or nature, it’s the result of choices corporations and we as a society have made about how to use technology.” — Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics, MIT
“You can worry about YouTube, Twitter, any social media platform with content moderation, but that's completely different than what's going on with Amazon and Google. If you lump them together, you're going to get the wrong solution because it's different problems.” — Carl Shapiro, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
“Think about a typical office week and think about what we do. For a typical worker 50 percent of that is activities that are social and best done face-to-face.” — Nicholas Bloom, Professor of Economics , Stanford University
“If the robot can be more objective than an umpire,” he said Friday, “then I think that is good for baseball, especially if fans feel that the robot is objective. ” — James Bessen, Executive Director , Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University’s Law School
“Probably the biggest surprise of the pandemic was that working from home worked so well.” — Nicholas Bloom, Professor of Economics, Stanford University
“Aging is a huge part of the story” in robot adoption.” — Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics, MIT
“Many of the jobs that get automated were at the middle of the skill distribution. They don’t exist anymore, and the workers that used to perform them are now doing lower-skill jobs.” — Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics, MIT
“Without the unique pressure-cooker environment of the pandemic, there wouldn’t have been as many leaps in remote-work technological innovation.” — Nicholas Bloom, Professor of Economics, Stanford University
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In this third of six reports from the Mapping the Use of Facial Recognition in Public Spaces in Europe (MAPFRE) project, Professor Theodore Christakis, Université Grenoble Alpes, and his colleagues provide the first ever detailed analysis of what is the most widespread way in which facial recognition is used in public and private spaces: to authorize access to a place or to a service.
June 23, 2022
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The United States immigration policy is the set of laws and provisions that regulates the entry and the stay of non-US citizens on national territory. High-skilled, college-educated immigrants contribute to scientific and technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and job-creation in the U.S.
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GPS data can be used to estimate how often people encounter others of diverse backgrounds throughout their day.
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