The AI & Advanced Computing Institute at Schmidt Sciences supports fundamental research in artificial intelligence (AI), the application of AI and data science across a wide range of disciplines, and the creation of high-impact research platforms that accelerate discovery.
Our AI at Work program aims to drive exceptional research into how AI adoption may influence the nature of work and the functioning of the labor market. We support both descriptive research, which assesses causal impacts, and prescriptive research, which field-tests the design of tools, training, and policies to produce desirable outcomes.
Currently, there are too few high-quality field experiments and quasi-experiments examining the real-world effects of introducing AI tools in the workplace. AI tool developers, government agencies, and businesses need reliable insights into how AI systems perform in practice and what their implementation means for employees and the labor market. The AI at Work program addresses this gap by funding research that provides clear, trustworthy estimates of AI deployment’s effects in the workplace.
AI at Work will support early-career economists and other quantitative social scientists, including graduate students, with up to $200,000 USD to conduct and analyze field experiments and quasi-experiments on AI’s workplace impact. To help identify promising candidates and projects, we are partnering with five leading economists and research institutions, each of whom has issued a tailored call for proposals and will assist in identifying top applicants.
The focus areas of our program partners are summarized below.
