Jacob Schaal

I am an economist researching how AI affects junior hiring, job tasks and career ladders. As a Research Fellow at the AI Objectives Institute, I work with Dr Bouke Klein Teeselink at King’s College London on how AI restructures the tasks within jobs, using UK job-ad data. I hold an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Generative AI is good at the codifiable tasks that junior staff learn on. I study what this means for entry-level work and what policy should do about it. With Alex Imas, I recently reviewed the evidence on AI and the labour market, and I wrote the labour market section of A Transformative AI Strategy for Europe.

Previously, I was AI Governance Research Manager at Cambridge ERA and co-edited Windfall Trust’s AI Economics Brief. Before that, I worked on EU AI policy at the think tank Pour Demain in Brussels.