Emerging technologies catalyze changes in our workplaces, homes, and communities – and as a result, in our economy. Today, a new wave of emerging technology, generative artificial intelligence, is already creating seismic shifts. To deliver on our public service mission, it is crucial that we explore these nascent technologies before they are fully matured so we can better understand their potential impacts on financial institutions, payment systems, and monetary policy.
Through the EmergingTech Economic Research Network (EERN), we will develop deeper insights into the economy of the future. The EERN will funnel, amplify, and serve as an open-source economic research repository for academics, researchers, and technologists at the nexus of emerging technologies and the economy. At its core, EERN is a place for people to exchange ideas and learn about other research and insights across the Federal Reserve System, in academia, and in the private sector.
On this page, you can find economic research and insights on the impacts of emerging technologies as well as economic research conducted using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Chad Jones | AI and Economic Growth
Join us on September 2 for a live presentation on AI and the potential consequences for economic growth over the next two decades from Chad Jones, the STANCO 25 Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
Interested in learning more about EERN? Contact Huiyu Li or Kevin Ortiz, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Heads of EmergingTech Economic Research
Latest Research and Insights

AI: A Fed Policymaker’s View
Remarks by Lisa D. Cook, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the NBER Summer Institute 2025.
July 17, 2025
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By Degree(s): Measuring Employer Demand for AI Skills by Educational Requirements

Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope?

On the Testability of the Anchor-Words Assumption in Topic Models

Precision Without Labels: Detecting Cross-Applicants in Mortgage Data Using Unsupervised Learning
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Small Businesses at the Frontier of the Generative AI Economy
How is the spread of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools affecting small businesses? Read more about the EERN roundtable with leaders of small-scale enterprises currently integrating GenAI technologies.

Events

Avi Goldfarb | The Disruptive Economics of AI

Anton Korinek | The Economics of Transformative AI

Job Matching in the Age of AI

David Autor | Expertise, AI, and the Work of the Future
