AI and Employment: The Future of the Workforce

Saturday, February 18, 2017: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Room 210 (Hynes Convention Center)
Erik Brynjolfsson,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Professor Brynjolfsson will speak about emerging challenges and opportunities for collaboration between people and machines in the workplace based on work by the National Academy of Sciences on the future of automation. As machine intelligence enters the workplace, change is inevitable. Yet, there are great opportunities to shift towards new platforms that combine human and machine to leverage our different competencies and strengths.