cover image: Workfromhome,AI,andthe labormarket:What’snext? - Steven J. Davis  July 2024 Workingfromhomeisheretostay.

Workfromhome,AI,andthe labormarket:What’snext? - Steven J. Davis July 2024 Workingfromhomeisheretostay.

27 Jun 2024

We drop persons with annualized earnings of less than $10,000 in the ATUS and SWAA and with annual household income of less than $25,000 in the HPS. [...] Full days worked from home in the United States rose from 0.6 percent of all paid workdays in 1975 to 2.2 percent in 1995, 3.4 percent in 2005, and 7.2 percent in 2019.10 The contagion fears and lockdowns prompted by the pandemic drove the abrupt, large-scale adoption of remote work. [...] To take another example, who is liable for patient harm due to a faulty AI diagnosis? The doctor? The developer of the AI tool? The supplier of data to train the AI tool? The insurance company that mandates its use? These and other sources of uncertainty will slow the rollout of commercial AI applications. [...] regulatory agencies issued AI Economic Innovation Group 5 regulations in 2022, and 21 agencies did so in 2023, including the Department of Transportation, the Department of Energy, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.12. [...] The second reason: To the extent that AI-exposed workers and jobs are concentrated in particular states and areas, it’s in the more densely populated parts of the country.17 Thus, AI-driven job losses are also likely to be concentrated in densely populated areas.
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