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Event DetailsMIT Task Force on the Work of the Future co-chair David Autor will be a speaker at this event.
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Event DetailsPresented by the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
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Event DetailsDaron Acemoglu, co-author of the research brief, “Taxes, Automation, and the Future of Labor,” and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) president Rob Atkinson discuss their views about the future of automation technology and the effects it may have on U.S. competitiveness and the economy. Watch video.
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Event DetailsBob Davis, Wall Street Journal Pulitzer Prize-winning senior editor and Lingling Wei, WSJ award-winning senior China correspondent, will discuss their new book with moderator Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. (MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future is an organizer of this event.)
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Event DetailsElisabeth Reynolds, Executive Director, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, MIT, in conversation with The Hill’s Editor-at-Large Steve Clemons.
The briefing includes presentations and Q&A on recent Task Force papers on declining job opportunities in cities, the need to strengthen worker voice, the prospects for autonomous vehicles, and the impact of automation on the trucking and warehousing industries.
Kresge Auditorium
Event DetailsExplore how we can create a future of work that complements and augments human potential while contributing to shared economic prosperity.
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Event DetailsOren Cass will talk about his book The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America, in conversation with Prof. David Autor, co-chair of the MIT Work of the Future Task Force. Cass, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, challenges some basic assumptions about what prosperity means and where it
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Event DetailsJournalist Ellen Ruppel Shell will discuss her book The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change, in conversation with Professor David Mindell (co-chair, MIT Work of the Future Task Force and founder & CEO of Humatics). From Amazon.com description: “Through exhaustive reporting and keen analysis, The Job reveals the startling truths
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Event DetailsIn the first event in the Work of the Future Book Series, anthropologist Mary Gray will talk about her book Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass. In Ghost Work, Gray and co-author Siddharth Suri examine how services delivered by major companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks