Daniel Ackerman
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269 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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Because the more people pull back on spending, the more customers she needs to make up for the losses.
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Researchers asked executives at nearly 6,000 companies how generative AI has affected their productivity and employment.
And 80% of the time?
Gregory Thwaites is an economist at the University of Nottingham, who co-authored the study.
That expectation could be because the technology is improving so quickly, something Lindsay Raymond, an economist at MIT, says she sees firsthand.
The holidays as in December, less than two months ago.
And even if the technology fails to live up to the hype more broadly, Raymond says the mere possibility could affect company staffing decisions.
For most companies today, AI may be reshaping expectations faster than it's reshaping their actual productivity.
I'm Daniel Ackerman for Marketplace.
Marketplace All-in-One · There are more unemployed people than job openings right now · 5 Feb 2026
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Here's one concern that Mark Hamrick, an economist at Bankrate, has about those 6.5 million job openings.
Less demand for professional and business services, for example, which had over a quarter million fewer job openings in December compared to the month before.
Nguyen says the growth of artificial intelligence could be one explanation.
Pavlina Chernova, a professor of economics at Bard College, says it's too early to tell how much AI is really to blame here, but the hiring slowdown is starting to take its toll on some groups.
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