Workers & Career Transitions

In her keynote address, Susan Athey described the ways in which COVID-19 affects the ongoing structural trend towards digitalization and automation, especially in advanced economies.

Helping workers find job or skill training will be an important part of addressing the instability and job loss brought on by AI, said Stanford [Professor] Susan Athey, but the United States hasn’t historically done a great job of helping displaced workers impacted by automation.

Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Our minds are used to seeing and dealing with linear change, which makes it difficult to recognize when change is becoming exponential.

Testing tradeoffs between vocational education for the school-to-work transition and gains in youth employment resulting in less adaptability and diminished employment later in life.

Whether individuals choose occupations that teach general or specific skills can have important implications on how protected they are from changing conditions on the labor market.

A speaker series, with Bloomberg Beta, brought together entrepreneurs building solutions to our nation’s growing crisis with inequality, student loan debt, and declining economic mobility.

Universities cannot by themselves educate the next generation of highly skilled workers, but they can apply their intellectual power to understanding and addressing critical national challenges.