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AI and the Future of Work Conference Recordings

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On May 22 and 23, AI at Wharton hosted its first-ever AI and the Future of Work Conference at the Wharton School. This two-day conference saw hundreds of industry and academia members gather to hear from more than 40 leading experts on how artificial intelligence is transforming the workplace.

Catch up on all the conference had to offer below.

Keynote Presentation

  • Ethan Mollick: Ralph J. Roberts Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Academic Director, Wharton Interactive

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

Managing AI Workflows

  • Anil Doshi: Assistant Professor, UCL School of Management
  • Arvind Karunakaran: Assistant Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University
  • Xueming Luo: Professor, Fox School, Temple 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

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

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

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, AI at Wharton
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