Dear all, Our next seminar speaker at CEU is Paul Gaggl (UNC Charlotte). Seminar title: "The Demand for Tasks in the Age of AI." Abstract: "I document emerging patterns in labor market task demand following ChatGPT's November 2022 launch, leveraging 48.3 million job postings (2022-2025) matched with Anthropic's classification of AI-suitable tasks from 3.5 million Claude conversations. Preliminary findings reveal a striking divergence: First, between May 2022 and May 2025 (only three years), we observe meaningful movements in demand for tasks in the labor market. Second, firms initially intensive in AI-suitable tasks (above median) substantively reduce their intensity in these tasks, while initially low-intensity firms (below median) do the opposite. Third, while the overall demand for AI-suitable tasks appears to have declined (on average), firms that increase the AI-intensity of their task demand do so primarily via tasks that Anthropic classifies as augmenting humans." Speaker's website: https://gaggl.org/research/ You are all cordially invited to his in-person seminar. Time and venue: April 8, Wednesday, 11.15am - 12.30pm, QS B-505, at CEU (51 Quellenstrasse, 1100 Vienna) Registration, till 12pm, the day before the seminar, is required at: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOGOBhDPxLiYqs2FKjgPAVi1DSIpUQUtVN1BQTkxRR0FTQTBESDBBSU1DSDRNUS4u&route=shorturl With questions, please contact the CEU seminar organizer, Timea L. Molnar, at molnartl@ceu.edu.