Expertise, AI, and the Work of the Future

Date

Wednesday, Dec 04, 2024

Time

9:00 am PST

Location

San Francisco, CA

Topics

Artificial IntelligenceTechnology

Summary

David Autor, the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor of Economics at MIT, delivered a live presentation on artificial intelligence and the work of the future on December 4.

Following his presentation, Professor Autor answered live and pre-submitted questions with our host moderator, Huiyu Li, co-head of the EmergingTech Economic Research Network (EERN) and research advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

You can view the full recording on this page.

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About the Speaker

David Autor is the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, codirector of the NBER Labor Studies Program and the MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative. His scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality.

Autor has received numerous awards for both his scholarship—the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Labor Economics, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019, the Society for Progress Medal in 2021—and for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship.


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