For much of the past year, alarm about the credit taken on to fund the boom in artificial intelligence has centered on software—a concern I examined in June. The focus is understandable.

Corporate leaders are facing a convergence of forces exposing serious weaknesses in their artificial-intelligence strategy. Employees are losing trust in leadership, returns on AI investment are ...

The hollowing out of manufacturing in the United States has been blamed for societal ills ranging from growing drug and alcohol abuse to declining rates of marriage and civic engagement. When Canada, ...

Hiring is, more and more, dominated by artificial intelligence. Standard AI-powered tools can sift through résumés, saving companies time and resources. Newer AI voice agents can also collect ...

One day last spring, I came back to my office from a lunch meeting and found a high-school student camping outside. He was a prospective University of Chicago undergrad, and he said he was passionate ...

Generative artificial intelligence has set off a tremendous amount of excitement, speculation, and anxiety thanks to its ability to convincingly mimic human work, including human writing. Although a ...

Crypto enthusiasts used to have a catchphrase in response to the doubters: “Have fun staying poor.” Their message: Go ahead, invest in your boring stocks and bonds while we get rich with Bitcoin, ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...

In the days following Donald Trump’s reelection, we, like millions of others, spent a fair amount of time reading articles recapping the political earthquake we’re living through. Trump won every ...

US vice president Kamala Harris took on price gouging as a significant part of her presidential campaign’s economic policy platform, promising if elected to call for “the first-ever federal ban on ...

The University of Chicago shares a unique and little-known connection with what has become the modern family office. In 1882, nearly a decade before John D. Rockefeller founded the University of ...