Study: Firms often use automation to control certain workers’ wages
MIT economists found US companies tend to target employees earning a “wage premium,” which increases inequality but not necessarily productivity.
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Like many AI companies automating work that humans currently do, Basata will eventually face a harder question about where the line is between augmenting workers and displacing them. For now, the founders say the administrative staff they work with aren't worried about that; they're more worried about drowning.
Read full articleMIT economists found US companies tend to target employees earning a “wage premium,” which increases inequality but not necessarily productivity.
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April has been a busy month in the world of AI. Two major AI models, hailing from the biggest AI companies of today, saw their debuts simultaneously. Anthropic was the first to drop Opus 4.7, and close to follow on its heels was OpenAI, which came out with its GPT-5.5. Though the leading models from […] The post GPT 5.5 vs Opus 4.7: Which is the Best AI Model Today? appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
This and more findings from our new poll of AI usage by thousands of US and UK workers