Fireside chat on AI's impact on labour and the economy
SASH is organising a fireside chat with two expert speakers to speak on the topic of "AI's impact on labour and the economy".
As AI capabilities increase and allow it to perform many work tasks, more firms are laying off workers and investing heavily in AI instead. How widespread is this phenomenon, and what impact could it have on the labor market? How can governments prepare policies that can help society manage the economic impacts due to AI? In this fireside chat, the Singapore AI Safety Hub (SASH) has invited two expert speakers to speak on this topic.
About the Speakers
Bharat Chandar (Stanford Digital Economy Lab)
Bharat is an economist with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He researches the labor market impacts of AI, including as an author on recent pieces "Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence" and "AI and Labor Markets: What We Know and Don’t Know." His research has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, the Economist, and various other news publications globally. He has also advised policymakers and business leaders around the world on the economic impacts of AI.
Deric Cheng (Windfall Trust)
Deric is the Director of Research for the Windfall Trust, a new non-profit focused on ensuring that the economic benefits of advanced AI are shared by everyone. He also leads the AGI Social Contract, a consortium of experts proposing concrete strategies to design a new social contract for a post-AGI society. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow at Convergence Analysis, where he previously led the Governance Recommendations Team. Previously, he was the 10th employee at Alchemy, an Ethereum infra startup now valued at $10.2 billion, and worked as a rapid prototyping researcher for Google, where he led software explorations for a next-gen Google Glass and was responsible for the first "Babelfish" real-time translation feature for wireless earbuds.