On January 22, 2024, we officially launched the MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative. This event brought together policymakers, practitioners and scholars in dialogue about key issues for the future of work.
Three panel discussions explored the following questions:
- What role can worker representatives play in the direction of technology?
- How can AI be used for social good?
- What type of work do we want in the future?
Speakers included: Katherine Cramer, Brian Deese, Daniel Huttenlocher, Karin Kimbrough, Frank McCourt, Ziad Obermeyer, Nick Romeo, Liz Shuler, Kathleen Thelen, and Zeynep Ton.
The event was held in-person at the MIT Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA and livestreamed. See agenda below.
Agenda
January 22, 2024
MIT Samberg Conference Center
Speaker
Panelists
Katherine Cramer
Natalie C. Holton Chair of Letters & Science and Virginia Sapiro Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Liz Shuler
AFL-CIO President
Kathleen Thelen
Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT
Chair
E. Glen Weyl
Research Lead, Plural Technology Collaboratory, Special Projects, Microsoft Research
Panelists
Brian Deese
MIT Institute Innovation Fellow
Daniel Huttenlocher
Dean, Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT
Frank McCourt
Founder and Executive Chairman, Project Liberty
Ziad Obermeyer
Associate Professor, Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor, UC Berkeley
Chair
Sally Kornbluth
President, MIT
Panelists
Karin Kimbrough
Chief Economist, LinkedIn
Nick Romeo
UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, and the New Yorker magazine
Zeynep Ton
Professor of the Practice, MIT Sloan
Chair
Elisabeth Reynolds
Lecturer, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
