About the event
Professor Daron Acemoglu leads a panel discussion organised by the Sanjaya Lall Memorial Fund.
Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professor Daron Acemoglu will lead a panel discussion on the future of work in the age of AI organised by the Sanjaya Lall Memorial Fund. He will be joined by Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides, Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and Helen Margetts, Professor of Society and the Internet.
The event will be hosted by our Dean, Soumitra Dutta and chaired by Professor Sir John Vickers.
The panel will discuss how can we best use AI technologies to create meaningful and well-paying jobs in the future? This panel event will bring together three of the world's leading thinkers on AI's societal impact to debate this question. There are many untapped opportunities for creating pro-worker, pro-human AI, and there are some small-scale examples showing that this is feasible. Yet, the current trend in AI technologies is towards greater inequality and more work elimination. It also appears inevitable that there will be more surveillance both in workplaces and beyond. In contrast, some believe in a different set of priorities and a different architecture for AI models that could be more useful for workers. Are there examples of occupations in which jobs can be made more meaningful and wages can increase if AI is used in the right way? And if so, are there barriers to achieving this type of outcome?
Speakers
- Daron Acemoglu, Economist, MIT
- Chris Pissarides, Cypriot economist, LSE
- Helen Margetts, Professor of Society and the Internet, University of Oxford
- Sir John Vickers, Warden of All Souls and Professor of Economics (Moderator)
- Soumitra Dutta, Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Management, Saïd Business School (Host)