Economist-spotlighted paper asks what evidence on work and wellbeing implies for AI futures
HaydnBelfield · x · 2026-10-27
A paper by scychanbrains and Haydn Belfield has been featured in The Economist. It tackles the question of what empirical evidence actually says about work and wellbeing — some argue work provides purpose and dignity, others see freedom from work as utopian — and derives implications for AI futures, grounding debates about post-AI society in research rather than pure philosophy.
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