Events

AI and the Future of Work
Sponsored by Wharton Human-AI Research
May 22-23, 2024

Jon M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut Street
8th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Wharton Human-AI Research hosted a two-day academic conference which explored how artificial intelligence is transforming the workplace. The conference covered themes on AI’s impact on employee experiencethe necessity for reskilling and upskilling for an AI-driven future, and forms of collaboration between AI and humans in professional settings.

— Chaired by Wharton Faculty —

Robert Meyer
Robert Meyer

Frederick H. Ecker/MetLife Insurance Professor
Professor of Marketing
The Wharton School

Dan Rock
Daniel Rock

Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
The Wharton School

Sonny Tambe
Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe

Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
The Wharton School

— Conference Team —

Mary Purk
Mary Purk

Former Executive Director
Wharton Human-AI Research

Zoe-Seznec-Sweetland
Zoe Seznec Sweetland

Associate Director
Analytics at Wharton

Carol Heller
Carol Heller

Program Coordinator
Wharton Human-AI Research

Keynote Presentation

Tom Mitchell: Founders University Professor, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University

Combining AI with Human Expertise

  • Matt Beane: Assistant Professor of Technology Management, UC Santa Barbara
  • Alex Moehring: PhD student, MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Luca Vendraminelli: Post-Doc Researcher, Stanford University

Challenges with LLM Adoption in the Organization

  • Anders Humlum: Assistant Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
  • Antonios Stamatogiannakis: Assistant Professor of Marketing, IE Business School, IE University

How Workers Adjust to LLM Capabilities

  • Sonia Jaffe: Principal Researcher, Microsoft
  • Emmanuelle Walkowiak: Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
  • Doron Yeverechyahu: PhD Student, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University

Management Practices that Complement AI Investment

  • Frank Li: Assistant Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
  • Kristina McElheran: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
  • Gregor Schubert: Assistant Professor of Finance, Anderson School of Management, UCLA

Combining AI with Human Decision-Making

  • Xi Kang: Assistant Professor, Owen Graduate School of Business, Vanderbilt University
  • Kevin Lee: PhD student, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
  • Peter Park: MIT AI Existential Safety Postdoctoral Fellow (Tegmark Lab)

AI and Economic Growth

  • Lukasz Drozd: Economist and Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia
  • Benjamin Manning: PhD student, Sloan School of Management, MIT
  • Victor Yifan Ye: Research Fellow, Stanford University

AI and Human Decisions at Work

  • David Almog: PhD student, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Sungwoo Cho: PhD student, UCLA
  • Di Yuan: Post-doctoral fellow, Gies College of Business, UIUC

AI and Unemployment

  • Morgan Frank: Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems, University of Pittsburgh
  • Yi Ming: PhD student, University of Southern California
  • Neil Thompson: Director, MIT FutureTech, MIT

Gen AI Markets for Creative Work

  • Madhur Mohar: PhD student, University of Georgia
  • Lei Wang: Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Penn State University, Smeal College of Business
  • Eric Zhou: PhD student, Boston University, Questrom School of Business

AI, Startups, and Risk

  • Anastassia Fedyk: Assistant Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
  • Nicholas Otis: PhD student, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
  • Nataliya Wright: Assistant Professor of Business, Columbia Business School

LLMs and Knowledge Generation

  • Laurence Ales: Professor of Economics, Tepper School, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Nicholas Pangakis: PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania
  • Hatim Rahman: Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

The AI and Policy Interface

  • Marina Mendes Tavares: Background Economist, International Monetary Fund
  • Min-Seok Pang: Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Emma Rockall: PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Stanford University

LLMs, Education, and Upskilling

  • Alireza Javadian Sabet: PhD student, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
  • David Rothschild: Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
  • Hong-Yi TuYe: PhD Candidate, MIT Sloan

Industry Panel

  • Sue Cantrell: Human Capital Eminence Leader, Vice President of Products, Workforce Strategies, Deloitte Consulting LLP
  • Michael Vennera: EVP & Chief Strategy, Corporate Development Officer, Independence Blue Cross
  • Bola Ajayi: Director of Data Science, Vanguard
  • Mary Purk: Executive Director, Wharton Human-AI Research