What’s the future of US workforce policy in the age of AI? Joining @beyer.house.gov (Congressional AI Caucus co-Chair) and Dmitri Adler, Merav Yuravlivker, and Jack Malde for a Hill briefing on May 13. Register: luma.com/xvloy4tl

Now on YouTube: a Penn-led conversation on Trump’s National Policy Framework for AI, with Ioanna Marinescu, Jennifer Rothman, Kevin Werbach, & Christopher Yoo. youtu.be/r6gNVIZ47d8 @imarinescu.bsky.social @kwerb.com @upenn.edu @theregreview.bsky.social @penncareylaw.bsky.social

Trump's AI Policy Framework

YouTube video by Penn Program on Regulation

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Join us at Penn this Friday April 24 for a discussion of "Social Good in the Age of #AI: Disruption & Possibility": ai.upenn.edu/social-good-...

Social Good in the Age of AI: Disruption & Possibility

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🎉I'll be promoted to full professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, effective July 2026! Grateful for of the many people who've helped and challenged me along the way. Now off to work on #AI and its impact on the economy, society, & policy!

Exciting funding opportunity for #AI economics research! The call focuses on labor market impacts & scientific productivity. Apply to this RFP. As a program partner, I am excited to learn about your work while reviewing your applications! schmidtsciences.smapply.io/prog/ai_at_w...

Next was a compelling panel on antitrust and labor with Rosa M. Morales, Suresh Naidu, @imarinescu.bsky.social, @evanpstarr.bsky.social, and Jonathan Guryan www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1V6... (7/9)

Market Power in Transition Conference: Antitrust and Labor

YouTube video by Columbia Business School

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Everyone's excited about robot fry cooks. But here's what I told @fortune.com: the question isn't whether we can automate restaurant kitchens — it's whether it's worth it economically. Robot hardware costs are declining far slower than AI software costs. fortune.com/2026/02/26/r...

Meet your new robot fry cooks: Inside the $28 billion race to disrupt White Castle and Jack in the Box | Fortune

Miso Robotics’ Flippy slung chicken tenders and Tater Tots at Dodger Stadium, and CEO Rich Hull has bigger ambitions for the tech.

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UK minister floats UBI to cushion AI job losses. I weighed in Fortune. My take: we need safety nets that scale with uncertainty. But will AI's winners support redistribution once they've won? 🔗 fortune.com/2026/02/01/elon-musk-optional-work-fantasy-universal-basic-income-uk-minister-jason-stockwood

“In my mind, I see like little marbles or something,” Marinescu said. “It's like, plop, plop, plop, plop. Widget, widget, widget, widget.” That's my very smart quote in this @marketplace.org episode about productivity measurement #EconSky www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

How do "widgets" fit into our services-based economy?

Widgets are a general stand-in for any produced good. But how do we think about widgets when goods are only a fraction of what we produce?

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The impact of AI on the labor market seen through the computational neuroscience lens 👇. Our Brookings paper is now posted on SSRN.

Konrad Kording@kordinglab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our paper that argues that the physical domain with its slow scaling should eventually dominate the fast scaling intelligence domain is now live on ssrn papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Welcome to #ASSA2026 in my home town! Please say hi if you see me in the corridors 😊! I look forward to seeing some of you tonight at the LERA research panel & reception w. Jared Bernstein @ericagroshen.bsky.social @darrickhamilton.bsky.social #EconSky

How can we respond to the impact of transformative #AI on the labor market? In this Digitalist Paper, I propose: AI “adjustment insurance” (AI-AI) to help workers with transitory job losses, and a “digital dividend” to support those permanently without work. www.digitalistpapers.com/vol2/marinescu

Got my @econ5k.bsky.social T-shirt, #EconSky, and you should too if you're an econ runner! I hope to see you in Philly in January #ASSA2026 sites.google.com/view/econ5k/...

Your truly on Musk’s post-work society prediction. fortune.com/2025/11/20/e...

Good morning, chilly Amherst! Looking forward to my talk today on #AI saturation & the future of work, and to seeing dear colleagues & meeting new ones! #AcademicLife

It's a wrap on the AGI Journalism Workshop in D.C., co-hosted with the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. ▸ AGI timelines, jobs, misalignment, U.S.–China policy & regulation ▸ @hlntnr.bsky.social, @akorinek.bsky.social, @imarinescu.bsky.social, @gleave.me, @alexbores.nyc, @deanwb.bsky.social + more

New @brookings.edu paper w. @kordinglab.bsky.social : Artificial Intelligence Saturation & the Future of Work. Wages can ↗️&↘️with #AI automation, as humans are pushed into physical jobs. In the longer run, intelligence saturation limits benefits from #AI. www.brookings.edu/articles/art... #EconSky

(Artificial) Intelligence saturation and the future of work | Brookings

In a new working paper, UPenn's Konrad Kording and Ioana Marinescu present a novel framework for assessing AI and the future of work

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#AI research fellow job at Schmidt Sciences. You can take it as a year of leave from your university too. One of the areas of focus is AI’s impact on the labor market #EconSky 👇

Listen to our conversation on competition and #monopsony in the labor market, and the #antitrust policy implications. I had a lot of fun talking to David Fisher from AAI, like we had to cut out some of the laughing 🤭. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did! www.antitrustinstitute.org/work-product...

Nice to see our work covered here 👇

Population Studies Center@pennpsc.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New research from PSC researcher @pgonalon.bsky.social with @imarinescu.bsky.social shows that the high cost of U.S. childcare breeds family income inequality. Learn more in OMNIA: bit.ly/48W3iOT Read the study in American Sociological Review: bit.ly/4h60nVY

Congratulations to my mentor and co-author Philippe Aghion!!!! His broad contributions to economics and boundless creative energy are truly inspiring.

NPR@npr.org · 10mo ago

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction. n.pr/4oh42lZ

AI Acquihires: Competition Risks, Talent Battles and Economic Spillovers Webinar - 8 October @ 17:00 CEST 🗣️Jonathan Kanter @lugaricano.bsky.social @imarinescu.bsky.social @igorletina.bsky.social Hans Zenger Moderator: @florianederer.bsky.social Register: cepr.org/events/ai-ac... #EconSky

Fellow economists, what kind of question would you most like to be asked when meeting someone at a conference? #EconSky 1. What are your working on? 2. What is your field? 3. What is exciting in your field? 4. Other: spill the beans!

Common Ownership & Employee Earnings updated & improved Consider a pair of companies that sell into the same product market. If pair shares common owners, the owners have incentive for pair to soften competition. Same with local labor market competition papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Proud to support @anthropic.com’s new Economic Futures Program as a member of their Economic Advisory Council! • Research grants up to $50,000 (rolling basis) • Policy proposal competition • Expanded Economic Index data access Apply: www.anthropic.com/economic-futures #AI #EconSky

Anthropic Economic Futures

A multidisciplinary program funding research grants, policy development, and data infrastructure to help society understand and navigate AI's economic transformation.

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“Us vs. them” mentality is not the way to intellectual progress nor to a healthy democratic debate.👇

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · last yr.

This would be an extremely bad idea. It will not satisfy them. It will acknowledge that they are right about something. It will empower them. Literally nothing that anyone should do, should be oriented towards placating this administration.

Very excited that our paper (joint with Jarkko Harju and ‪@schoefer.bsky.social‬) on "Voice at Work" is published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. We study what happened when workers in Finnish firms got a right to worker voice on the corporate board. 👇

🧨 New draft dropped:🧨 "Cash Transfers, Mental Health and Agency: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply. Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social). #basicincome #UBI

Yes, continuing unemployment claims are up, but the US labor market remains remarkably stable across most indicators in 2025. Context matters: this is a slight softening, not a crisis. My analysis in @Forbes.com explains the full picture www.forbes.com/sites/zachar... #EconSky​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

More Americans Staying On Unemployment Amid ‘Slight Slowdown’ Of Economy

Losses in service jobs sparked the first negative job growth in two years.

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Huge sleeper issue is how states will (or won’t) be able to absorb huge SNAP cuts in BBB. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

Gov. Josh Shapiro said he’s not sure SNAP will be able to exist in Pa. under President Trump’s megabill

Pennsylvania won't be able afford the cost of federal food assistance if Trump's tax and spending plan becomes reality, Shapiro said.

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