Economics
New Future of Work: AI is driving rapid change, uneven benefits
For the past five years, the New Future of Work report has captured how work is changing. This year, the shift feels especially sharp. Previous editions have focused on technology’s role in increasing productivity by…
Ideas: Steering AI toward the work future we want
Microsoft Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and researchers Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman, and Rebecca Janssen unpack the New Future of Work Report 2025 and explore the ideal AI-driven working world. Plus, is AI a tool or a collaborator? And…
Research Intern – Inference Economics and Human Agency
The Research Intern will conduct empirical research on how human oversight shapes the economic return of AI-assisted work. This includes designing controlled experiments, developing session-level evaluation frameworks that link inference cost to output quality and…
The Publication Choice Problem
GridFM
Small foundation models for the electric grid GridFM is a Microsoft Research initiative to build a foundation model (FM) for electric power grids, applying modern AI methods—similar to large language/weather models—to complex grid physics. Traditional…
Research Intern – Computational Social Science
The Microsoft Research Computational Social Science (CSS) group is widely recognized as a leading center of computational social science research, lying at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and the social sciences. We have been…