Emerging Technologies & Future of Work

Consumer-goods giant Unilever has been hiring employees using brain games and artificial intelligence — and it's a huge success

Unilever has used artificial intelligence to screen all entry-level employees. Candidates play neuroscience-based games to measure inherent traits, then have recorded interviews analyzed by AI. The company considers the experiment a big success and will continue it indefinitely.

Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality

In this MIT study conducted with Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, researchers examine the performance implications of AI on realistic, complex, and knowledge-intensive tasks.

OECD Employment Outlook 2023: Artificial Intelligence and the Labour Market

The 2023 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook presents the latest labour market developments in OECD countries. It examines the evolution of labour demand and widespread shortages, as well as wage developments in the context of high inflation. It also takes stock of the current evidence on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the labour market, investigating how to get the balance right in addressing the possible negative effects of AI on labour market outcomes while not stifling its benefits.

AI and Services-Led Growth: Evidence from Indian Job Advert

This paper documents near-exponential growth in the demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-related skills in India’s services sector since 2016, using a new dataset of online vacancies from its largest jobs website. It evaluates the impact of demand for AI skills on establishment-level non-AI postings in the short term using an event study, and medium term using a shiftshare design that exploits variation in exposure to new AI inventions.