Yong Suk Lee
Keough School of Global Affairs
Assistant Professor of Technology, Economy and Global Affairs
- Technology and work
- Labor economics
- Urban economics
- Entrepreneurship
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and the implications for labor and organizations
- AI ethics and regulatory issues
- AI and tech competition and nationalism; global inequality
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Science Magazine
AI can alert urban planners and policymakers to cities’ decay
October 30, 2023
However, measuring and tracking the quality of an urban environment, its evolution and its spatial disparities is difficult due to the amount of on-the-ground data needed to capture these patterns. To address the issue, Yong Suk Lee, assistant professor of technology, economy and global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, and Andrea Vallebueno from Stanford University used machine learning to develop a scalable method to measure urban decay at a spatially granular level over time.
Rinnovabili | Italian
Artificial Intelligence will map cities to evaluate urban degradation
October 30, 2023
Research by the University of Notre Dame and Stanford used Artificial Intelligence to precisely map three model cities, analyzing urban decay and identifying solutions to increase the well-being of citizens. The possible solution to the problem may have been found by Yong Suk Lee, assistant professor of technology, economics and global affairs at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, and Andrea Vallebueno of Stanford University.
CNN
AI drive-thrus may be good for business. But not for the rest of us
June 19, 2023
The adoption of new technology could mean fewer jobs or part-time work for employees, said Yong Suk Lee, assistant professor of technology, economy and global affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where he focuses on AI’s impact on labor.
Robotics & Automation News
Will a robot take my job? Notre Dame researcher says this view is overly pessimistic
March 31, 2023
With the impact of industrial robots on the US labor markets in the past two decades, and an ever-increasing presence of machine-driven technology (such as artificial intelligence and ChatGPT), many employees have feared that one day robots will take their jobs. Not necessarily so, according to research recently published by Yong Suk Lee, an assistant professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.
phys.org
Will a robot take my job? Researcher says this view is overly pessimistic
March 29, 2023
With the impact of industrial robots on the U.S. labor markets in the past two decades, and an ever-increasing presence of machine-driven technology (such as artificial intelligence and ChatGPT), many employees have feared that one day robots will take their jobs. Not necessarily so, according to research recently published by Yong Suk Lee, an assistant professor in the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.