It's #BrainAwarenessWeek Dana Foundation🧠. In the video RMIT University & premstem researcher Dr Bobbi Fleiss tells us about mitochondria. Mitochondria make the body's energy & are found in all of our cells. Did you know? The #brain uses about 20% of the body's energy. 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=XY5DPv…

Tune in live: Our CEO Jensen Huang's onstage #GTC24 keynote. Join us at 1p.m. PDT as Jensen unveils the #AI advances that are shaping our future across industries. nvda.ws/4ajEKNa

AI and Artificial General Intelligence's impact on wages depends on automation's pace versus capital accumulation; slow automation may raise wages, rapid may decrease wages pre-full automation, from Anton Korinek and Suh nber.org/papers/w32255

Generative AI, Work and Risks in Cultural and Creative Industries SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… by Emmanuelle Walkowiak and me from RMIT Blockchain Hub

The inseparability between genAI & risk exposure as a driver of job transformation, measuring job transformation zones in cultural/creative industries. Our paper with Jason Potts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Coming up next AI at Wharton Future of Work room b: Emmanuelle Walkowiak (RMIT) w/ “Generative AI, O-ring Risks and Work“. O-ring production can make cascading multiplicative errors... definitely an issue if we think about DAGs including human and machine actors (ANT in econ?)

Paper looks at the Australian labor market to see where there are AI-related risks for workers. Can map out different risk profiles across job types.

When is it OK for economists to experiment on people? ift.tt/8I2K6r3

A new method of identifying good managers finds good managers have roughly twice the impact on team performance as good workers, from Ben Weidmann, Joseph Vecci, Farah Said, David Deming, and Sonia Bhalotra nber.org/papers/w32699

🇫🇷 🇬🇷PARAPLEGIC MAN CARRIES OLYMPIC FLAME Kevin Piette, left paraplegic after a biking accident, just made history. Using a robotic exoskeleton, he carried the Olympic flame in front of the Temple of Hera in Ancient Olympia, Greece Source: BBC

"GenAI represents a profound transformation in human-machine interaction and collaboration, as machines and workers can ‘communicate’ through a common language." - Emmanuelle Walkowiak on how to optimise the return on investments in AI at work. RMIT University rmit.edu.au/news/media-rel…

Emmanuelle Walkowiak from RMIT Blockchain Hub and College of Business and Law on AI health & safety aihs.org.au/Web/Web/Advoca…

"Going forward, Deaton urges the economics profession to think more about predistribution — the mechanisms that determine the distribution of income in the market itself, before taxes and transfers — and less about a redistribution..." n.pr/3PVrIy2

Honoured to have been part of an academic panel today, presenting before the House Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training for its Inquiry into the Digital Transformation of Workplaces.

Glad to be featured in Information Age on the Australian govt trial where humans outperformed AI. #Automation alone failed, we need to ensure that AI augments workers ADM+S Centre RMIT Blockchain Hub College of Business and Law ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/h…

In this article ADM+S Affiliate and economist Emmanuelle Walkowiak from RMIT University explains why the trajectory of early-stage technology adoption is important, with her research showing organisations are often reluctant to revert technology changes once implemented. ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/h…

Glad to present today at the Melbourne Economic Forum at College of Business and Law . My presentation was on GenAI, AI risks and the changing nature of work in Australia. Engaging with esteemed colleagues was very enriching!!

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

Let's remember today that Jim Robinson started out as a Lecturer at the University of Melbourne from 1992 to 1995.