AI is already making decisions at work. The question is which ones stay human.
Join Dr. Paula Goldman, Chief Ethical & Humane Use Officer at Salesforce, for a keynote and Q&A on her new book Manage the Machine: How to Harness Human-AI Collaboration at Work.
Goldman spent the past few years fielding a strange pattern of questions, from friends who'd never cared about tech before to CEOs across every industry. The questions circled the same worry: what does AI mean for how we work, and how do we manage AI's risks? Manage the Machine is her answer to these questions. The book moves from a small town council in England where employees rejected AI tools despite their benefits, to a bank in Singapore that got automation right by preparing its workforce ahead of time, drawing out what separates AI rollouts that build trust and get great results from those that do not.
Goldman will walk through what she's learned about getting AI right across diverse functions such as sales, customer service, marketing, people management, hiring, legal, and product innovation, making the case that the leaders who keep people at the center of AI transformation will be the ones who get the most out of it.
She'll be joined for a fireside chat by Dr. Caroline Simard, Dean of Northeastern University Silicon Valley and a longtime researcher on career pathways, inclusion, and organizational change in the tech industry. A reception with book signing follows.
This is for anyone whose work AI is already touching, which by now is most people: executives and early-career professionals, engineers and designers, sales, compliance, and HR, corporate teams and startup founders alike.
Free and open to the Northeastern community and the public across industry, academia, government, and the startup ecosystem. All participants will obtain a copy of the book.
Hosted and co-sponsored by Northeastern University Silicon Valley and SRI.
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, | 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM | SRI Auditorium