Industries of Ideas: Preparing People & Policy for Work in an AI Economy

Generative AI burst into the public consciousness with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT at the end of 2022. In the two and a half years that followed, we have seen the capabilities of foundation models like ChatGPT grow at a breathtaking rate, but our understanding of AI’s implications for the economy and work has not kept pace. Public impact predictions have ranged from species extinction to utopia, while even the most sober and technical economic forecasts have varied by amounts nearly twice the size of Germany’s economy.

• STPP
• Science Technology and Public Policy
• Jason Owen-Smith
• MIDAS
• IRIS
• artificial intelligence