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Applicability vs. job displacement: further notes on our recent research on AI and occupations 

August 21, 2025
Recently, we released a paper Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI that studied what occupations might find AI chatbots useful, and to what degree. The paper sparked significant discussion, which is no surprise since people care deeply about the future of AI and jobs--that’s part of why we think it’s important to study these topics.
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    Applicability vs. job displacement: further notes on our recent research on AI and occupations 

    August 21, 2025

    Recently, we released a paper Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI that studied what occupations might find AI chatbots useful, and to what degree. The paper sparked significant discussion, which is no surprise since people care deeply about the future of AI and jobs--that’s part of why we think it’s important to study these topics.

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    Research Focus: Week of January 13, 2025 

    January 17, 2025

    In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow.

  4. Microsoft Research Focus 15 | Week of May 8, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of May 8, 2023 

    May 10, 2023

    In this issue: Microsoft researchers win four more awards; AutoRXN automates calculations of molecular systems; LLM accelerator losslessly improves the efficiency of autoregressive decoding; a frequency domain approach to predict power system transients.

  5. Microsoft Research Focus 13 edition, week of April 10, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of April 10, 2023 

    April 12, 2023

    Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. To improve the utilization of computing resources, cloud providers often offer underutilized capacity at a discount, but with…

  7. I Chose STEM – Event Recap 

    February 14, 2018 | Jessica Mastronardi

    Earlier this week Microsoft Research Montreal celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with a one-day symposium: I Chose STEM. More than 200 Canadian STEM students and research community stakeholders joined Microsoft Research for inspirational keynotes, workshops…

  9. ACM EC'17

    Microsoft and intelligent markets at ACM EC’17 

    June 26, 2017

    By David Pennock, Principal Researcher and Assistant Managing Director  The 18th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'17) starts today at MIT in Cambridge, MA, featuring some of the latest research findings at the interdisciplinary boundary between economics and computer science. Microsoft researchers will have…

  12. Seeking Answers amid World Cup Excitement 

    June 10, 2014

    Posted by Rob Knies When the world starts watching, it’s time for David Rothschild to shift into overdrive. Readers of this blog need little introduction to the work on prediction models from Rothschild, a Microsoft researcher and economist. Past posts have examined his efforts to…

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