The article titled "The Work Now Within Reach" discusses how increasingly capable and affordable AI technologies can broaden the range of tasks that individuals and businesses can perform. It highlights the potential for AI to enhance productivity and enable more efficient, cost-effective growth. The piece emphasizes the expanding opportunities for leveraging AI to achieve greater work outcomes.
Sam Altman has written that we are entering the Intelligence Age, a time when AI will help people become dramatically more capable. The biggest problems of today—across science, medicine, education, national defense—will no longer seem intractable, but will in fact be solvable.
A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful.
The article discusses findings from OpenAI Economic Research that illustrate how workers are integrating AI into their jobs beyond conventional roles. It highlights specific new activities that are becoming regular components of their work routines. The research provides insight into the evolving nature of work in the AI era.
arXiv:2606. 15708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Welcome to the ninth edition of the AI Index report.
By Sha Sajadieh, Loredana Fattorini, Raymond Perrault, Yolanda Gil, Vanessa Parli, Lapo Santarlasci, Juan Pava, Nestor Maslej, Russ Altman, Erik Brynjolfsson, Carla Brodley, Jack Clark, Virginia Dignum, Vipin Kumar, James Landay, Terah Lyons, James Manyika, Juan Carlos Niebles, Yoav Shoham, Elham Tabassi, Russell Wald, Toby Walsh, Dan Weld
arXiv:2608. 05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI capabilities advance, AI systems will pose greater risks to national security and potentially humanity as a whole.
By Peter Barnett
AI is advancing fast. We have the chance to shape its progress—toward discovery, safety, and a better future for everyone.
Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.
Our latest report reveals stark differences in advanced AI adoption across countries and outlines new initiatives to help nations capture productivity gains from AI.
arXiv:2607. 21547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid progress of AI has intensified the long-standing pursuit of automation: replacing human participation with algorithms wherever possible.
By Fares Fourati, Hinrich Sch\"utze, Eyke H\"ullermeier, Iryna Gurevych
AI’s next frontier isn’t just about capability—it’s about who gets to use it. Our mission to put AI in the hands of as many people as possible is what drives us.
A new study of the postwar U. S.
By Peter Dizikes | MIT News