Wednesday, March 18, 2026

flowering purple sage (Salvia leucophylla): Stanford Hoover's "Productivity Gains And Labor Pains: What Will AI Do To Jobs?" on March 17, 2026


Dear #ErikBrynjolfsson, #KarinKimbrough, #PeterMcCrory, #StevenDavis, #JamesManyika (& Julie Wong @Google), #GinaRaimondo, #RishiSunak, #CondoleezzaRice (and please forward to GinaRaimondo & Condoleezza Rice, whose emails I couldn't find): 

Thanks so much for your outstanding #StanfordHoover "Productivity Gains And Labor Pains: What Will AI Do To Jobs?" And great to talk with you briefly at its close, James Manyika, and MP Rishi Sunak. I'm writing to follow up, James and Julie, about developing World University and School, in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, in all 7159 known living languages, and building out related datasources, and codebases for AI and ML productivity, and Rishi, about growing Great Britain World University and School with AI and teaching AI productivity, and with free online WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school / similar, AA / AS and Master's degrees - from students homes in GB.  And please see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article   "#RevolutionizingEducation with #MachineLearningAndAI" -https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 updated March 2, 2024 (and in the PPS).

Here's an initial Gemini AI  
summary of the great Stanford Hoover Institute panel on March 17, 2026 "Productivity Gains And Labor Pains: What Will AI Do To Jobs?"  


About free wiki World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ : 

World University and School is developing ~200 major free online WUaS Universities, and in countries' main and official languages (from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States) for online free WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school / similar (for 16-18 year olds), AA/AS, and Master's Degrees - (building on https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ & https://ocw.mit.edu/, with its ~2500 + free CC-4 licensed (which says 1) share freely, 2) adapt eg with AI and ML, 3) but not commercially, so WUaS can't seek tuition, and is rather going to seek reimbursement from all 200 countries' Ministries of Education, and from all 50 US states' DoE too) undergraduate and graduate courses in English, but MIT has neither a law school nor a medical school, so WUaS will have to develop the Law and Medical OpenCourseWare, and perhaps in collaboration with Stanford Law CodeX and Stanford Medicine. World University and School is also developing wiki schools for speakers of all 7159 living languages, and from there seeking to code for most of all 7.9 billion people on the planet - to facilitate free universal education, and potentially to end poverty worldwide, by seeking to distribute Stanford Mine cryptocurrency (with which WUaS has some partnering emails) from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - each a Wikidata Pin # . What a trove of data generation for AI productivity gains! 

In addition WUaS seeks to develop a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverything and think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, TensorFlowAI, GeminiAI and at the #GCellView and #GMoleculeView levels in each of all ~200 countries - eg a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory - and for AI productivity gains, and where both wings of WUaS seek to hire 2.5 million people, slightly more than Walmart (in 19 out of 200 countries - and for the Academic Press wing in 7,159 living languages with AI and ML translation too, and the Physical-Digital WUaS Educational Services' Stores for books, computers, robotics, hospital technologies, groceries, for A productivity and growing careers, too, see the PPPPS), over the next 50-100 years, and in designing AI productivity for the future - with #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords as #DigitalTwinOrganisms (see PPPS) for all 7.9 billion people developing from little Pegman  in G Street View and to facilitate also a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingReversal #RealisticVirtualEarthExtremeLongevity #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics #RealisticVirtualEarthForSyntheticBiology (#hashtags on #TwitterX and #LinkedIn) coming into conversation with Harvard and MIT professor of Genetics' George Church's heralding of aging reversal genetics  ... and all regarding new ideas too for AI productivity and approaches to studying this and building out datasets and codesources. Both of WUaS's wings are planned in 200 countries and for speakers or all 7.159 living languages, and as WUaS seeks to code for all 7.9 billion people for free universal education and to end poverty potentially by distributing Pi cryptocurrency to many of these, especially say the poorest billion. 

Thanks for your outstanding #StanfordHoover "Productivity Gains And Labor Pains: What Will AI Do To Jobs?".

All the best, more later and thanks so much,
Scott

200 countries, each a major online WUaS university 

Wiki schools for people to people teaching and learning in 7,159 living languages and for AI productivity too 

You_at_World_University (potentially for all 7.9 billion people on the planet)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence and see the MIT OCW here, eventually for credit toward free online WUaS degrees




PS 
Dear #ErikBrynjolfsson #KarinKimbrough #PeterMcCrory #StevenJDavisStanford #JamesManyika #GinaRaimondo #RishiSunak #CondoleezzaRice: Thanks much for the outstanding #StanfordHoover "Productivity Gains & Labor Pains: #WhatWillAIDoToJobs?" https://www.hoover.org/events/productivity-gains-and-labor-pains-what-will-ai-do-jobs @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2034406698103029999

Languages at WUaS - all 200 countries' + 
https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2034406879422746678

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2034407231710707965

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2034407608355062038

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2034407786160050399

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2034408073935433740

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2034408290877395384




PPS 
inform big structural change CODING for AI productivity & regarding 200 #WUaSunivs & #PeterNorvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article ?



How could an iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth @WorldUnivAndSch inform big structural change CODING for AI productivity & re 200 #WUaSunivs & #PeterNorvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS "#RevolutionizingEducation with #MachineLearningAndAI" -https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 w 'structural' a social science word?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2007199018829640137

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2007200123303145504

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2007200456725103004

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2007200536601473111

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2007200910490140889

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2007200754432675846

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2007201015444254828


Retweeting -


 "As I look ahead to 2026, I still believe in an America that works for all of us.

We can create a vision of big, structural change that will charge us forward.

Democrats must continue to articulate our values and fight like hell for them—even if it bothers billionaires."

https://x.com/ewarren/status/2007098879775498697?s=20





PPPS


HUGE development: 
"building towards the #virtualOrganism ... Manifold collaborates with leading global pharmaceutical partners to accelerate translation of organism-scale biology into meaningful clinical impact." How to dev with #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords #DigitalTwinOrganisms?

in #RealisticVirtualEarth?


retweeting 

George Church - 






PPPPS

store within a store model World University and School in Walmart?

Walmart's 
#CEOJohnFurner 

& former #CEOKathrynMcLay

& #CEOChrisNicholas

Excited for #WUaSstoreWithinAstoreModel 'store within a store model' @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress & a #WalmartWUaS collaboration re the #WorldUnivAndSchStoreName & per #GeminiAIreWUaSstores
Walmart, WUaS: Global Partnership Vision
https://g.co/gemini/share/0f2d0e414014
-https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/roggeveld-mountains-sa-m-11226-11926.html !

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2012323092442321203

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2012323781100929072

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2012323525529678079

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2012323294779953328

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2012323659843854420

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2012324404974481508

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2012324491121090951



And with Walmart in 19 out of about 200 countries, could WUaS begin to develop with Walmart initially in just 2 or 3 of these countries and in their main languages ... and for #WUaSoutreach to students too ... for free #WUaSdegrees online from home, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ AND in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program?


See


AND 






PPPPPS 

My notes - 

Condoleezza Rice introduces


Rishi Sunak speaks next 


time horizon



Society and people need to be brought along with these major AI changes ... we need these discussions 


Steven Davis to Erik Bryn

article ... benefits of giving ai chatbot to employees
what did it say

1st main finding
1
enormous boost in productivity

2
workers themselves seemed to be happier



Steven Davis
that study is particularly positive

Productivity boost for improvement for least able workers



Karin Kimbrough

green shoes

1.3 billion members in Linkedin where she's chief economist

1.3 million new jobs on their platform ... from AI ...

there are jobs where people are getting hired 40% slower ..than five years ago ... medical scribes


post doc researcher post grad researcher is one of the lowest hiring job these days


skill reshuffling

redefining nature of jobs

adopting these new technologies is a challenge and costly for large enter[preises




Peter McCrory
advocate for 
studying speed of change in companies approving

general purpose technology

at Anthropic - they are studying with user privacy preserving methods to see how people are adopting these tools 



Steven Davis -
what does adoption mean?

steven in his study - people are using ai for just 1.5 hours a week

used intensively in contrast to how people are dabbling in it


maybe 94% of task workers do but people might be only using them for 30% or less



Steven Davis back to Erik Brynholson -

Canaries in the coal mine

study of the largest payroll processing company ... EDP


rank every occupation by how exposed they are to AI


sliced it also by age

22-26 
20s 30s 

youngest group had declining employment


3 other groups were increasing employment
coders
home health care workers

folks 
separate
autonmating

vs 
augmenting - the 2nd group see more employment

canaries
and green shoots



Steve Davis to 
Karin Kimbrough

impediments to rapid adoption  

policy impediments we should think about 



how to implement AI is a big issue for c-suite executives 

that change management process is enormously extensive for c-suite

it's an impediment and process

the other 
upskilling
acquiring the skills that we need 


enthusiasm gap 

how to give people more agency with ai ... and for c-suite people

adoption rates are still low she thinks


FinTech
Finance
Education



Steve Davis

to Peter
what is holding up how people are adopting it 


Erik

in response to Peter
in coding
people are draining the question is 

for aiming these incredible tools 

liberal arts and technical complementing

Karin
people are becoming entrepreneurs on Linkedin ...

Will AI take my job?
Not if you ask good questions ...



Steve Davis

underlying tensions

race between green shoes and canaries



to 
Peter

want to have a monitoring toolkit

if AI does cause a displacement
they are putting in place this now casting framework 


Harder question

How do you see the future?

rise in unemployment in most skilled jobs in the next 2 years?

now casting telling the time

AND
forecasting 
assigns the probability of various futures ...



Erik

he thinks it's fundamentally a design question not a prediction question

more powerful tools ... to change the world


3 things would help
as these techs change rapidly

1
companies change much more slowly

embrace the dynamism and flexibility 


2
We don't have nearly enough flexibility that we should have
flying into turbulent times

rely on private sector real time large scale data to do this 

3
augmenting vs 

bias us to augmenting

tax issues

more creative re research

how to combine humans and machines to make something new

where wealth is widely shared 



Last question
what insights about policy for the upcoming speakers


Karin
if there's a better way we can train a workforce

better for dynamism

Peter
need more info about adoption official statistics

can't only rely on private companies for data

2
There is a range of uncertainty 





2nd panel

Condolezza Rice

Rishi Sunak - sitting member of parliament  for 2 counties in England

75th governor or Rhode Island - Ramundo

James Manika - google economists = visiting professor of practice at Oxford


to James
what would you say to leaders 

pace is relentless

scope of innovations
kind of systems 
range and scope of capabilities are expanding

having to keep inventing new benchmarks


scope
many related areas are now expanding

quantum computing is making strides with AI

world models


The whole stack is making progress

chips at Nvidia

TPUs at google 


These systems can blow your minds
but that also do badly 


2nd
point
beneficial policies

broad 

empower people - extraordinary 

with languages 1000 languages' project - reached 250

Sciences

adding 20? complex proteins

material science

high energy physics


How these technologies 

have now added flash floods


3rd point
important for policy makers 
to understand risks and complexities


with Rishi - at the AI summit


mis use as a risk


finally
complexities

something lost and something gained



Education

essay writing



Gina Raimnudo

as a leader ... done to you ... 

How as a leader are you thinking about this the possibilities and risk

former governor and former secretary of commerce


adversaires  - china - are investing heavily in robotics 

it is a race

balance risk and benefits



unleash AI ...

clusters of unemployment 

if it's 5 or 10 million people unemployment concentrated


Finally slowing down AI

UBI - ?

innovation ... 

let the chips fall where they may - bad idea


the culprit is the system of education workforce transition
is old fashioned too slow and 


education ...


she thinks governors are the way forward



Condolezza

stakes in these regards ...

government retraining programs don't seem to work 

mostly 


push for outcome based funding for higher education training 

rewards are for attendance not outcomes

transition support for workforce ... and transition support 



Condoleezza to Rishi

training in Great Britain

all have problem with education programs

people are going to be published more by rapidity changing AI 



Rishi

return to list of to dos james talk about

lucky times

prioritized what CEOs and companies and societies need to do ?


needs to happen in capitals around the world


crucially
we can't be complacent about these impacts of Ai



James Manika

commend the prime minister



Condolezza

important leadership role is in the private sector

major players in governance


What would you like to have teh private sector do to help with these questions/?


Rishi

built a different dashboard inside the chancellor of the exchequer
to know what to do ...


Gina
2 asks

government reacts to people 

she thinks us is anxious about AI
 

2nd
ask




Rishi
need to build AI literacy 




James Manika -  Google president & economist

skills and literacy 

What are the skills ?

This technology is energy intensive 

nuclear (boo) ...


AI n the public interest 

work on language ...

work on 1000 languages does not make sense commercially ...


they are working on things that help society


mission
organized the world's information and make it useful



Condolezza

Before you were leaders, you were politicians

take jobs
raise electricity prices
and a tron robot comes at you ...



Gna

labor market disruption of AI


Rishi
is an AI optimist
daughter is obsessively polite tiwh AI

leaders and politicians aren't stepping up to the plate to hearld AI


Show Go Tell

there's a lot of low hanging fruit
just making people's daily interactions with government easier and better


Action this Day
from policy makers leaders to take AI and get out




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On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 12:04 PM Hoover Events <rsvp-hoover@stanford.edu> wrote:
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Productivity Gains And Labor Pains:

What Will AI Do To Jobs?

 

AI will transform the nature of work—but how quickly, which sectors first, and with what consequences? This event brings together leading technologists, economists, and policymakers to assess what’s happening and what needs to be done.

Featuring

Erik Brynjolfsson

Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human Centered AI (HAI)

Steven Davis

Senior Fellow and Director of Research, Hoover Institution

Karin Kimbrough

Chief Economist, LinkedIn

James Manyika

President, Research, Labs, Technology & Society for Google and Alphabet

Distinguished Fellow of Stanford's HAI and Ethics of AI at Oxford

Peter McCrory

Head of Economics, Anthropic

Gina Raimondo

40th U.S. Secretary of Commerce

75th Governor of Rhode Island

Condoleezza Rice

Director of the Hoover Institution

66th U.S. Secretary of State

Rishi Sunak

Member of Parliament for Richmond and Northallerton

 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution

57th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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