Why ’65’ Isn’t the Magic Number for Retirement Anymore

The old system is broken. People are living much longer and they need—and want—to work later in life to make the numbers add up. Besides, you can only spend so much time on the golf course.

When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw

Brian Groh reflects on how artificial intelligence has begun to erode his work as a copywriter. Turning to a chatbot for career advice, he receives an unexpected and unsettling suggestion.

A 1 Percent Solution to the Looming A.I. Job Apocalypse

The threat of artificial intelligence doesn’t only present a job crisis. It creates an education challenge. The problem isn’t that people can’t work. It’s that we haven’t built systems to help them continue learning and connect them to new opportunities as the world changes rapidly.

New Approaches to Characterize Industries: AI as a Framework and a Use Case

Recent AEI research unites economists, data scientists and policy experts to solve a critical problem: measuring AI's true impact on jobs and skills. With traditional systems failing to track generative AI's rapid spread, this compendium presents innovative strategies — including talent-flow models and new skill frameworks — to inform smarter workforce and economic policy.

How should we talk about workforce investment? With Rachel Lipson.

SCL Futures Fellow (2024-2025) and Resident Scholar at the Aspen Economic Strategy Group Rachel Lipson argues that workforce development should be reframed from an individualized anti-poverty social policy into a public good similar to R&D investment, prioritizing critical industries and job quality to benefit the entire economy rather than targeting specific disadvantaged populations.

How to Save theAmerican Experiment

To support human prosperity in the next decade and beyond, we need bold institutional experiments. In this op-ed, Yale Law School professor John Fabian Witt argues that America can overcome its current democratic crisis by learning from the 1920s, when civil society institutions and philanthropy responded to eerily similar conditions as today with transformative new models of economic organization like industrial unions and civil rights movements that ultimately led to the New Deal and civil rights era.

The Future Of Education: Rethinking What We Know

Erin Mote calls for a broad shift in our understanding of education: moving from industrial-age schooling models that prioritize content delivery and standardization to information-age learning systems that teach students agency, individuality, and critical thinking.

The Age of De-Skilling

Forget the apocalypse — AI's real threat is quieter: the erosion of our own abilities. As machines handle more cognitive work, we risk atrophying skills we’ve come to rely on, from interpreting literature to legal analysis. Kwame Anthony Appiah asks: How do we harness AI to elevate human work without becoming passive reviewers of systems we no longer understand?

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies

Renée DiResta and Rachel Kleinfeld argue that traditional top-down communications strategies are fast becoming obsolete. Scholars and policy organizations can’t rely on their credentials and prestige alone. To connect with modern audiences, legacy institutions must understand how the new media landscape emphasizes authenticity, resonance, and audience engagement above all.

Rethinking Internships to Let Students ‘Try On’ Purpose

Work Shift Teach for America CEO Aneesh Sohoni argues for work experiences that combine skill-building, income, and social impact. Teach For America’s Ignite Fellowship lets college students “try on” purpose-driven careers while addressing urgent needs in local communities.