How will AI impact work and society?

At the Poverty Action Lab at MIT, we test ideas rigorously to see if they solve the problems facing the poorest in society, from healthcare and education inequalities to access to credit and social mobility.

These large-scale, randomised controlled trials involve millions of people and are designed with the goal of eliminating global poverty. After all, that is the most important economic problem society will ever encounter.

Whether AI can help alleviate poverty is uncertain and could go in…