Publications

Research

(2026) Did US Worker Retraining Reduce Participant Automation Exposure?, with Jordan Canedy, arXiv
(2026) AI Agent Traps, with Nenad Tomašev, Matija Franklin, and Joel Leibo, arXiv
(2025) Distributional AGI Safety, with Nenad Tomašev, Matija Franklin, Sébastien Krier, and Simon Osindero, arXiv
(2025) Virtual Agent Economies, with Nenad Tomašev, Matija Franklin, Joel Z. Leibo, William A. Cunningham, Iason Gabriel, and Simon Osindero, arXiv
(2025) AI Labor Displacement and the Limits of Worker Retraining, The Brookings Institution
(2024) Voice and Access in AI: Global AI Majority Participation in Artificial Intelligence Development and Governance, with Sumaya N. Adan, Robert Trager, Kayla Blomquist, Claire Dennis, Gemma Edom, Lucia Velasco, Cecil Abungu, Ben Garfinkel, Chinasa T. Okolo, Boxi Wu, and Jai Vipra, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative
(2024) The Artificial Intelligence Shock and Socio-Political Polarization, Technological Forecasting & Social Change
(2024) The case for promoting the geographic and social diffusion of AI development, with Mark Muro, The Brookings Institution
(2024) Does automation increase support for the far right?, with Francesco Tasin and AJ Mannan, The Brookings Institution
(2023) Building AI cities: How to spread the benefits of an emerging technology across more of America, with Mark Muro and Sifan Liu, The Brookings Institution

Writing

(2024) The case for promoting the geographic and social diffusion of AI development, with Mark Muro, The Brookings Institution
(2024) Could artificial intelligence really boost labour productivity?, with Francesco Tasin, OMFIF
(2024) National approaches to AI safety diverge in focus, OMFIF
(2024) Will growth in regional payment systems spur de-dollarisation?, OMFIF
(2024) Growing Evidence Shows Importance of AI for Healthcare, ITIF
(2024) Risks around AI and algorithmic convergence are causing “regulatory gaps”, OMFIF
(2024) European Union acts on artificial intelligence safety, with AJ Mannan, OMFIF
(2024) Evidence Shows Productivity Benefits of AI, Center for Data Innovation
(2024) How the global South may pay the cost of AI development, with Francesco Tasin, OMFIF
(2024) Getting AI policy in the financial sector right, OMFIF
(2024) Will the AI bet pay off?, OMFIF
(2023) New data shows that without intervention, generative AI jobs will continue to cluster in the same big tech hubs, with Mark Muro, The Brookings Institution
(2023) Building AI cities: How to spread the benefits of an emerging technology across more of America, with Mark Muro and Sifan Liu, The Brookings Institution
(2023) The Arguments Against Student Debt Forgiveness Are All Bunk, Jacobin
(2023) A Recession Is Underway for the Many but Not for the Few, Jacobin
(2023) Global financial system underprepared to deal with cyberattacks, OMFIF
(2023) Benefits and risks of AI are finally being taken seriously, OMFIF
(2023) Digitalisation is rapidly changing US labour market dynamics, OMFIF
(2023) How central banks are already deploying artificial intelligence, OMFIF
(2023) Friendshoring gaining traction in central bank reserves, OMFIF
(2023) Artificial intelligence: promises and risks to the macroeconomy, with Darrell West, OMFIF
(2023) Philadelphia Fed optimistic about US economic resilience, OMFIF
(2023) The macroeconomics of artificial intelligence, OMFIF
(2023) Look beyond labour market figures to understand US economic health, OMFIF
(2023) Silicon Valley Bank and the double-edged sword of digital efficiency, OMFIF
(2023) Markets exploring alternative currencies despite dollar dominance, OMFIF
(2023) Should reducing inequality be a central bank mandate?, OMFIF
(2022) An unequal embrace of digitalization may contribute to recession risk, The Brookings Institution
(2022) Democrats Are Ditching Class, and It’s Costing Them Working-Class Voters, Jacobin
(2022) Despite crypto crash, financial institutions are cautiously wading into digital assets, OMFIF
(2022) Financial institutions assessing how best to improve data infrastructure, OMFIF
(2022) Biden’s student debt plan flawed but the right move, OMFIF
(2022) Predictions of K wave plunge excessive, but theory teaches important lessons, OMFIF
(2022) Recession debate misses the point, with Mark Sobel, OMFIF
(2022) Is the US already in a recession?, OMFIF
(2022) Cracking down on the gamification of finance, OMFIF
(2022) What are central bank reserves for?, OMFIF
(2022) Fed presidents cautiously optimistic for a soft landing, OMFIF
(2022) Inflation blame game, OMFIF
(2022) Corporate US making consumers pay for inflation, OMFIF
(2022) Regulators racing to keep up with digital IDs, OMFIF
(2022) Biden administration right to limit stock buybacks, OMFIF
(2022) Shift towards isolationism poor solution to effects of war, OMFIF
(2022) Inverted yield curve does not prove US recession imminent, OMFIF
(2022) Why the labour market won’t fuel US inflation, OMFIF
(2022) US employment polarisation tempers worker power and inflation, OMFIF
(2022) Cocktail of private debt and inequality makes US more vulnerable to stagflation, OMFIF
(2022) Crisis may push European central banks to favour US reserves, OMFIF
(2021) Automation and the radicalization of America, The Brookings Institution
(2020) America’s House of Debt: US private debt is making inequality worse and the recession deeper, Dollars & Sense
(2020) Artificial Intelligence: Inequality, Power & Politics, Goethe-Institut
(2019) The Problem of Inequality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, TEDxProvidence
(2018) How AI will transform inequality, TEDxBrownU