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Panel: Future of Work

“Foxconn’s Terry Gou says the company plans to replace 80% of workers with robots in 5-10 years.”  – Samson Ellis 

“According to our estimate, 47 percent of total US employment is in the high risk category, meaning that associated occupations are potentially automatable” – Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne

Remember the Luddites? The fear and resistance to change is not new.  New technology has upended industries for millennia. Jobs were replaced or eliminated by machines and new ones were created. Remember the steam engine? So what makes it different this time in the age of artificial intelligence and automation? This discussion will look at the future of work in the age of AI, examine strategies and solutions for a shared future, from education, workforce reorganizing and reskilling, universal basic income, to the radical restructuring of socio-economic systems that may be needed to reverse the widening inequality.  Panelists will include Arun Sundararajan (Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University’s (NYU) Stern School of Business and author of The Sharing Economy), and Matthew Putman (scientist, musician, CEO of Nanotronics). This discussion will be moderated by Rachel Korberg (Program Officer at Ford Foundation Future of Work Initiative).











When: Thu., May. 9, 2019 at 6:00 pm
Where: New York Live Arts
219 W. 19th St.
212-691-6500
Price: $10
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“Foxconn’s Terry Gou says the company plans to replace 80% of workers with robots in 5-10 years.”  – Samson Ellis 

“According to our estimate, 47 percent of total US employment is in the high risk category, meaning that associated occupations are potentially automatable” – Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne

Remember the Luddites? The fear and resistance to change is not new.  New technology has upended industries for millennia. Jobs were replaced or eliminated by machines and new ones were created. Remember the steam engine? So what makes it different this time in the age of artificial intelligence and automation? This discussion will look at the future of work in the age of AI, examine strategies and solutions for a shared future, from education, workforce reorganizing and reskilling, universal basic income, to the radical restructuring of socio-economic systems that may be needed to reverse the widening inequality.  Panelists will include Arun Sundararajan (Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University’s (NYU) Stern School of Business and author of The Sharing Economy), and Matthew Putman (scientist, musician, CEO of Nanotronics). This discussion will be moderated by Rachel Korberg (Program Officer at Ford Foundation Future of Work Initiative).

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