Ember Smith (Economics and Brookings Mountain West) recently was selected to present her summer internship research on "Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Las Vegas" at the Summer 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium, which took place earlier this month. Smith's research draws on work by the McKinsey Global Institute and the Brookings Institute to assess the risk of automation across a number of occupations, and identifies the forms of automation and adaptation measures that businesses and local policy makers are considering. An analysis of occupation-specific employment data reveals that Las Vegas faces a substantially higher than average risk of automation than the vast majority of large metropolitan areas in the United States.

Smith is an undergraduate student pursing a major in economics. She was a summer intern with Brookings Mountain West.