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Senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he writes on workforce development, employment, poverty, and politics.
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Morning EditionSixty-four percent of workers in PwC’s new global survey used AI at work in the past year, while 51 percent say they can get the training they need to do so effectively. Two new reports on the skilled trades suggest the question for firms has moved from whether to adopt AI to how to fit it into existing work. In Alabama, a new statewide agreement puts AI training inside the community-college and employer network that trains the state’s manufacturing workers.Workers’ AI use is risi
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Afternoon UpdateAI’s effects on work depend on what happens around the technology. As agents take on longer sequences of tasks, the human skills around them—coordination, judgment, relationships, and oversight—appear to gain value. Employers are writing new rules for how workers share and supervise AI-generated work.Meetings may be harder to automate than Suleyman’s forecast assumesA Financial Times writer disputes Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman’s prediction that AI could automate most comp
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Morning EditionMcKinsey estimates that the United States could have more jobs a decade from now while about 11 million workers move between occupations, which makes worker mobility and retraining the main adjustment problem. New NBER evidence finds no statistically significant AI-related rise in unemployment among recent college graduates this summer. McKinsey’s health-care analysis shows that task automation and job loss differ: AI may be able to perform many clinical tasks, yet McKinsey does n
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Afternoon UpdateNearly one in five working-age people worldwide used generative AI in the second quarter of 2026, though usage varies by country: 73.3 percent in the UAE, 33 percent in the United States. Some firms now list AI agents on their organizational charts, which raises questions about who supervises the agents and who answers for their work.Nearly one in five working-age people worldwide now use generative AIMicrosoft’s latest Global AI Diffusion Report estimates that 18.8 percent of th
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September 28, 2026Harker: Entry-level jobs operated as apprenticeships Former Philadelphia Fed president Patrick Harker argues employers have paid entry-level workers to perform routine work while those workers learned the judgment, organizational knowledge, and professional skills that senior jobs require. If AI lowers the value of the routine work, employers may be less willing to pay for the learning that came with it.Harker says AI does not account for the whole decline in junior hiring. Pos
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