Automation & Displacement

New Container-Ship Design Eliminates Manual Lashing Work on Deck

HD Hyundai says it has delivered the first container ship using a lashing-free design that removes the need for workers to manually secure containers on deck with conventional equipment.

Final Version of an AI-Adaptability Study Shrinks Its Most Vulnerable Group to 3.3 Million Workers

The published NBER chapter by Sam Manning and Tomás Aguirre finds 3.3 million U.S. workers in jobs that are both highly exposed to AI and low in adaptive capacity, down from 6.1 million in the January working paper.
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An AI Exposure Score Measures Potential, Not What Happens to Jobs

Occupational AI exposure scores rate what the technology could do, not what employers do with it. New Stanford research shows the same exposure linked to falling, flat or rising employment depending on worker seniority and how AI is used.

No Economy-Wide AI Displacement in Current Evidence, but a Widening Gap for Young Workers in Exposed Jobs

Stanford's latest payroll evidence finds no widespread AI job displacement, yet employment of 22- to 25-year-olds in highly exposed occupations is about 19% below that of less-exposed peers. Both findings hold, and hiring is where they meet.