The Work of The Future: Where Will It Come From? 

The nature of work has changed fundamentally over the past four decades, and the growth of AI will accelerate this change. This poses both potential challenges such as job loss, but also opportunity to address failings in the current employment landscape. Where
will new jobs come from, how confident can we be that they will emerge, and what can we do to ensure that this happens? David Autor will discuss how we can collectively shape technology, policies, and institutions to augment workers,
raise productivity, and address society’s most pressing problems.
David Autor is one of the most influential labor economists of his generation. He is the Codirector of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Labor Studies Program; his scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earning levels and inequality, and election outcomes. In 2020, Autor received the Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his work “transforming our understanding of how globalization and technological change are impacting jobs and earning prospects for American workers.”