That its changing rapidly to understand why people are anxious to figure out how concerned they should be. What is changing, what is different this time and what can we do to ensure the coming era of change leads to some degree of shared prosperity and our focus is on the labor market and how we make the labor market function while for as many workers as possible. That is where we see the opportunity and also the challenge, kind of a lesson if you read our report which was just released last week. It is on making the work work and thats why its such an honor to have mary gray from the University Research talking about her book ghost work and here is a photograph. To get a tiny bit of background, her work has been on the sort of communication and use of technology and how they use technology and other means to establish across places and to maintain anonymity. She was recruited to work on projects and once there got interested in the question of how Artificial Intelligence wasnt just so
Faculty member of the Economics Department and the cochair of the mit work of the future attack force that was commissioned a year ago the spring and the purpose of the task force is to engage in confront the sense that many have that the labor market and technology is changing rapidly to understand why people are anxious, to figure out how concerned they should be, what is changing and what is different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change needs to not productivity growth but some that show up in our focus is on the labor market and how we make the labor market function well for as many workers as possible. Thats where we see the opportunity and the challenge in the lesson if you read the Task Force Report which was released last week, one thing that we s say, i think a critical economic lesson of the 21st century, a wellfunctioning labor market is the foundation for a healthy middleclass in a wellfunctioning political system. Without that foundation of
Anxious, to figure out how determined they shoul should bet is changing and what is different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change leads to not just productivity growth, but some degree of shared prosperity. And our focus is on the labor market on how we make the labor market function while for as many workers as possible, but that is where we see this as the opportunity and also the challenge. The lesson if you read the report from just last week one of the things we say is coming and im kind of critical on this with a well functioning labor market is the foundation for tha healthy middle class and the political system and without the foundation of opportunity and prosperity it is difficult for other things to work well. So our focus is on making the work work and that is why it is such an honor to have mary here today from the Indiana University research talking about her book and here is a photograph and here is the actual person. Just to give you a t
Determined they shoul should bet is changing and what is different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change leads to not just productivity growth, but some degree of shared prosperity. And our focus is on the labor market on how we make the labor market function while for as many workers as possible, but that is where we see this as the opportunity and also the challenge. The lesson if you read the report from just last week one of the things we say is coming and im kind of critical on this with a well functioning labor market is the foundation for tha healthy middle class and the political system and without the foundation of opportunity and prosperity it is difficult for other things to work well. So our focus is on making the work work and that is why it is such an honor to have mary here today from the Indiana University research talking about her book and here is a photograph and here is the actual person. Just to give you a tiny bit of background, the
To understand why people are anxious to see how concerned they should be. And what is changing and what is different this time. And what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change leaves not just a productivity growth but some degree of shared prosperity. Our focus is on the labor market and how we make the labor market function while for as many workers if possible. Also the challenge and the lesson if you read a report which was just released last week. One of the things that we say is a critical economic lesson of the 20th century. Is that a wellfunctioning labor market is the foundation for a healthy middleclass and without that foundation of opportunity and prosperity its very difficult for other things to work well. It also makes work work and that is why its such an honor to have mary kay mary gray here today talking about her book ghost work just to give you a tiny bit of background she is a call drill cultural anthropologist. Her earlier work has been on the communicati