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O-Ring Automation (NBER Working Paper 34639)

Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb's January 2026 NBER working paper modeling how automating some tasks in a chain of interdependent tasks changes the value of the remaining human work. Free PDF.

#automation#economics#ai-jobs
nber.orgAdded Sep 29, 20260 opens
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SkillGym: Internalizing Human Skills into LLMs for Real-World Problem Solving

arXiv paper (Sept. 2026) introducing SkillGym, a framework that turns human-written agent skills into executable, verifiable training environments so language model agents learn them as built-in capabilities.

#ai-agents#llm#research#training
arxiv.orgAdded Sep 28, 20260 opens
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Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies

An open-access paper on Zenodo describing Critical AI Literacies (CAILs): ways of thinking about AI that reject framings from the technology industry, naive computationalism, and dehumanizing ideologies, and that center human cognition and the integrity of research and education. Co-authored by Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij, among others.

#ai#ai-literacy#ai-ethics#education#research#cognitive-science
zenodo.orgAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens

Report

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AARP Longevity Economy Outlook

AARP's Longevity Economy Outlook series measures how Americans 50 and older contribute to the U.S. economy, including their spending, jobs supported, tax payments, and unpaid caregiving and charitable contributions. The reports include projections through 2060 and key findings for employers and policymakers.

Why I recommend it: Useful for seeing the scale of older workers and consumers in the labor market — a counterweight to coverage that treats workers over 50 as an afterthought.

#longevity-economy#older-workers#aging#economy#workforce#labor-market#research#aarp#50plus#gdp
aarp.orgAdded Sep 30, 20260 opens
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JCPAR Workforce

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation publication on workforce policy, hosted on Issuu. Described from title; details not checked page by page.

#workforce#policy#equity
issuu.comAdded Sep 28, 20260 opens
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Can AI Spot Mistakes in IKEA Assembly?

Epoch AI report on a spatial reasoning benchmark built around finding mistakes in photos of partially assembled IKEA furniture — a proxy for economically important visual reasoning tasks like repair work. Top scores jumped from 28% to 80% in 10 months; Chinese open-weight models trail the frontier by about 7 months.

#ai-research#benchmarks#spatial-reasoning#epoch-ai
epoch.aiAdded Sep 28, 20260 opens

Websites

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The GovLab

The Governance Lab's research, publications and programs on how institutions can govern more effectively and legitimately through technology and data.

#government#governance#data#research#civic-tech
thegovlab.orgAdded Sep 28, 20260 opens
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PhyPID Group

Site of the PhyPID group at the University of Colorado Boulder, working at the intersection of physics, AI, and data-driven discovery.

#ai#physics#research#science
phypid.orgAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens

Articles

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Ranked: U.S. Wealth by Generation in 2026

A Visual Capitalist chart using Federal Reserve data to compare U.S. household net worth across generations in 2026.

#wealth#generations#economics#data-visualization
visualcapitalist.comAdded Sep 28, 20260 opens

Organizations

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MDRC

Nonpartisan social policy research organization evaluating education, workforce and anti-poverty programs, including AI in career services.

#research#workforce#policy
mdrc.orgAdded Sep 30, 20260 opens

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Digital Colonialism and the Role of Local Intermediaries: Big Tech, Data Sovereignty and Human Rights in Africa

An open-access scholarly article in the Business and Human Rights Journal (2025) by Jake Okechukwu Effoduh of Toronto Metropolitan University. It examines how Big Tech firms and local intermediaries perpetuate data exploitation, infrastructure dependency and algorithmic bias in Africa, drawing parallels between historical colonialism and the modern digital economy.

#digital-colonialism#data-sovereignty#africa#human-rights#big-tech
cambridge.orgAdded Sep 29, 20260 opens

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Message Passing Enables Efficient Reasoning

An arXiv paper showing how message-passing techniques let language models reason more efficiently, with the full text free to read and download.

Why I recommend it: A preprint — not yet peer-reviewed, so treat the results as preliminary until the work is replicated or published.

#research#reasoning#models#arxiv
arxiv.orgAdded Sep 25, 20260 opens