Ben Weidmann
Director of Research, Harvard Skills Lab
Signed the letter · Academia · United Kingdom
Director of Research at the Harvard Skills Lab, part of the Project on Workforce at Harvard; his research covers the economics of skill development, education and labor markets. Received a PhD in Education from Harvard in 2021. Co-author of 'The ABCs of Who Benefits from Working with AI: Ability, Beliefs, and Calibration', a controlled experiment on who gains from AI assistance. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.
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11 works in the co-authorship map · 293 citations across them
Sources
- Ben Weidmann - Miratrix C.A.R.E.S. Lab (Education PhD '21; Director of Research, Harvard Skills Lab)
- The Skills Lab - Project on Workforce, Harvard (research on skill development, education and labor markets)
- The ABCs of Who Benefits from Working with AI: Ability, Beliefs, and Calibration
- “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source
In the network
4 co-authors on the map · PageRank #234 of 400 · bridge #221 of 400 · 2 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Labor markets and technology.
Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; what these numbers mean. See Ben Weidmann on the map
Documented positions
Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Will AI widen inequality? leans disagree
Co-authored experiment finds AI assistance improves performance more for people with low baseline ability and reduces performance inequality. This concerns task performance in an experiment, not income or wealth inequality.
Should governments act on AI now? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
How fast will the impact arrive? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Selected work
Writes with
David J. Deming (4), Andrew Caplin (2), Daniel Martin (2), Philip Marx (2)
Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (4 of 4 shown).
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