How Emerging Technologies are Reshaping U.S. Productivity, Labor, and Competition

IMG
Instructor
Seth Benzell
August 18, 2026 (Tuesday)
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Duration: 60 Minutes
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Overview

A survey of how automation, AI, and platform technologies are changing the US economy, focusing on empirical evidence and economic theory.

Areas Covered in the Session

  • How Has Productivity Actually Evolved?
  • AI’s near-term firm + job impacts
  • The most important measure of the level of automation, and how it has changed
  • Background lessons from previous technological revolutions
  • Power-law outcomes: why a few firms and creators capture most gains

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Speaker Profile

Seth Benzell Assistant Professor, Chapman University (Argyros College of Business and Economics). Research on automation, social networks, antitrust, and social welfare; affiliations with MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and Stanford Digital Economy Lab; co-host of the “Justified Posteriors” podcast; published in top general science, economics and law venues; advises firms and public agencies on AI and platform strategy.