Eric Fruits Quoted in BBN Times on AI, Productivity, and Labor Markets
ICLE Director of Economic Research Eric Fruits was quoted in BBN Times article examining early research on AI’s impact on worker productivity, job structure, and the evolving competitive landscape. Read the full article here.
In part, this is because the new AI tools have arrived so recently, and are evolving so quickly, that don’t yet have much experience with their effects–or much data to separate the effects of AI from other changes in the economy. Eric Fruits and Kristian Stout offer an overview of what the emerging evidence has to say in “AI, Productivity, and Labor Markets: A Review of the Empirical Evidence” (International Center for Law & Economics Issue Brief, February 5, 2026). For those just getting up to speed on the subject, one especially useful part of the article is that the reference list is annotated–that is, there’s a brief discussion of what angle is taken by each of the references, with weblinks as possible.