Article Source: CA State Senator Josh Becker


Dear Friends,

Our district is an epicenter of Artificial Intelligence (AI) development and many of you have questions and concerns about its effects on the future of work and employment. Last year, my Select Committee on Economic Development and Technological Innovation held a hearing to listen to experts looking at the impact of AI on the labor market. On Thursday, July 16th I am hosting a similar forum for you.
Please join me for Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work, a virtual town hall. We’ll discuss pertinent questions to try to understand how we’re seeing AI play out in the economy now, and what the economy could look like in the future.
I’ll be joined by nationally recognized expert panelists:

• Dr. Bharat Chandar, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and co-author of “Canaries in the Coal Mine,” which gave us some of the first insights into how this period of change is affecting workers.
• Dr. Jane Wu, Assistant Professor in the Strategy group at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and co-author of “Some Simple Economics of AGI.”
• ​​Mitchell L. Stevens, Professor at Stanford and an organizational sociologist focused on educational sequences, lifelong learning, alternative educational forms, and the formal organization of knowledge. He convenes the Pathways Network and the Futures Project on Education and the Learning Society.

 AI as a technology has many potential benefits, and many potential risks. We are already seeing early impacts on certain segments of the workforce. This year, I’ll be doing a series of town halls on a wide range of AI-related topics to understand what the experts are seeing, and what information we still need. I hope to see you at our first AI Town Hall on July 16th!
Please RSVP here.
Sincerely,

Josh Becker
Senate District 13

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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
Thursday, July 16
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Zoom