Safe & Ethical AI Vienna Meetup: The Future of Work
This is the sixth meetup of Safe & Ethical AI Vienna -- a cross-disciplinary community of professionals from academia, industry and policy who work on, think about and care deeply about the risks posed by AI, be they ethical, societal, psychological or existential.
The topic of this meetup is:
The Future of Work
We will start with two or three lightning talks from the members of our community working on AI governance and then dive into the topic of how the job market and society as a whole are already changing because of increasing AI adoption and the use of AI agents, and how it will look like in the future when AI is even more capable, even more ubiqutous and even more generalist.
We will touch on these questions:
-- which jobs can and will be taken by AI?
-- How to ensure a sustainable future with people losing jobs to AI? How to create more human jobs?
-- Is universal income a realistic option?
Some background reading
What work can robots do? — Anthropic
Which physical tasks can robots already perform, which jobs are most exposed, and what practical barriers still prevent automation? Spoiler: robots can't do much! Only 0.3% of human jobs currently - in a competitive way.How employment is changing at Anthropic — Anthropic
A look inside an AI company at how AI agents are changing everyday work, the skills employers value, and opportunities for junior employees.Building pro-worker AI — Brookings
How could AI create new opportunities for human workers, and what policies could steer its development in that direction?Fiscal Policy Can Help Broaden the Gains of AI to Humanity — IMF
How governments could support workers affected by AI through unemployment protection, retraining and taxation, while sharing the economic benefits more broadly.The economics of a Universal Basic Income — Institute for Fiscal Studies
A clear introduction to UBI’s potential benefits and practical challenges, including funding, work incentives and support for people with different needs.Finland’s basic income experiment — Kela
What happened when 2,000 unemployed people received unconditional monthly payments? Findings on employment, wellbeing and financial security.
The vision for Safe & Ethical AI Vienna is to build:
A cross-disciplinary community spanning research, industry and policy
A space to exchange ideas and develop collaborations
A connection to the local and international AI safety landscape, including events, opportunities and new research
A stronger presence for Vienna in the global AI safety conversation
If you think AI poses some of the most important and underexplored risks of our time, and you’d like to be around others who feel the same — come along.