Brett Hemenway Falk

Brett Hemenway Falk is a researcher and co-author of the 2026 paper "The AI Layoff Trap," written with Gerry Tsoukalas. The paper, published as a preprint on arXiv, models how competitive incentives can lead firms to over-automate and displace workers beyond a collectively optimal level, arguing that a Pigouvian automation tax is the only effective remedy among various policy options. Falk and his co-author describe themselves as researchers who actively use machine learning and AI in their own workflows.