AI & the Future of Work

Research and public scholarship from The Harvard Project on Workforce on artificial intelligence, labor markets, skills, and economic opportunity.

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Mind the Gap: AI Adoption in Europe and the U.S.

David Deming

March 2026

Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin, David J. Deming, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, and Jonas Jessen (2026) find that AI adoption varies widely across countries and firms and is shaped by workforce and management practices.

A Systematic Approach to Experimenting with Gen AI

Raffaella Sadun

January 2026

Harvard Business Review, January–February 2026 (with Johannes Berndt, Florian Englmaier, Jorge Tamayo & Nikolaus von Hesler

Job Interviews Aren’t Evaluating the Right Skills

Joseph Fuller

August 2025

Harvard Business Review, August 14, 2025 (with Ben Sesser)

Measuring Human Leadership Skills with AI Agents

David Deming

April 2025

NBER Working Paper, April 2025 (with Ben Weidmann & Yixian Xu)

How People Use ChatGPT

David Deming

September 2025

Forked Lightning Substack, September 15, 2025

The ABC’s of Who Benefits from Working with AI: Ability, Beliefs, and Calibration

David Deming

October 2024

NBER Working Paper No. 33021, October 2024

The (Possible) Labor Market Impacts of AI

David Deming

November 2024

Recorded seminar, Stanford Digital Economy Lab, November 21, 2024

A Data-Driven Case That AI Has Already Changed the U.S. Labor Market

David Deming

October 2024

Forked Lightning Substack, October 7, 2024

Built to Adapt - Preparing People to Thrive in an AI Economy

Kerry McKittrick

June 2026

Youtube video posted 6/10/2026. Panel hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Director Kerry McKittrick shares critical insights on building career resilience

Using generative AI to learn is like Odysseus untying himself from the mast

David Deming

January 2026

Forked Lightning Substack, January 12, 2026

Management and Reskilling in the Age of AI

Raffaella Sadun

December 2025

Recorded lecture, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco / EERN, December 15, 2025

Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market

David Deming

January 2025

NBER Working Paper No. 33323 / Aspen Economic Strategy Group, January 2025 (with Christopher Ong & Lawrence Summers)

Reskilling in the Age of AI

Raffaella Sadun

October 2023

Harvard Business Review, September-October 2023 (with Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel & Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic)

AI-Human Teams and the Future of Work

David Deming

April 2025

Forked Lightning Substack, April 7, 2025

The Past, Present, and Future of Office Work

David Deming

October 2024

Forked Lightning Substack, October 24, 2024

The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI

David Deming

September 2024

Forked Lightning Substack, September 23, 2024

How People Use ChatGPT

David Deming

September 2025

NBER Working Paper No. 34255, September 2025 (with Aaron Chatterji, Thomas Cunningham, Zoe Hitzig, Christopher Ong et al.)

The Expertise Upheaval: How Gen AI’s Impact on Learning Curves Will Reshape the Workplace

Joseph Fuller

July 2025

Burning Glass Institute White Paper

ChatGPT Really Does Offer Mundane Utility

David Deming

September 2025

Forked Lightning Substack, September 16, 2025

How Gen AI Could Change the Value of Expertise

Joseph Fuller

March 2025

Harvard Business Review, March 10, 2025 (with Matt Sigelman & Michael Fenlon)

Shorting the AI Jobs Apocalypse

David Deming

September 2025

Forked Lightning Substack, September 2, 2025

The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI

David Deming

September 2024

NBER Working Paper No. 32966, September 2024, Revision Date: February 2025 (with Alexander Bick & Adam Blandin)

In Defense of Email Jobs

David Deming

October 2024

Forked Lightning Substack, October 15, 2024