AI outside of education

  • May 2025. Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects. Anders Humlum & Emilie Vestergaard. “We examine the labor market effects of AI chatbots using two large-scale adoption surveys (late 2023 and 2024) covering 11 exposed occupations (25,000 workers, 7,000 workplaces), linked to matched employer-employee data in Denmark….Modest productivity gains (average time savings of 3%), combined with weak wage pass-through, help explain these limited labor market effects. Our findings challenge narratives of imminent labor market transformation due to Generative AI.”
  • March 3, 2025. LinkedIn post from Andreas Horn. “𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝟭𝟬 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗜!…At IBM, we just published a 48-page report on AI transformation success across 10 industries. It includes case studies, executive insights and recommended actions for each sector. This cross-industry perspective is very valuable, because you can clearly see that there are a few industries that are redefining themselves with AI, while others are struggling to keep up.”

A “what the heck” moment

  • Feb 11, 22026. Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story.
  • Feb 12, 2026. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me. Scott Shambaugh. “An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.”