Automation

Learn about the workers most likely to encounter AI on the job, its ethical implications, and the considerations necessary for ensuring that job quality is prioritized.

Policymakers have the opportunity to reduce automation risks, future-proof workforces, and increase retention in manufacturing. Here’s how.

Amid retention and recruitment gaps, manufacturers are considering automation. But without also centering job quality, this may do more harm.

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

Latinos are the future of America and inextricably tied to the economic recovery from the pandemic.

The Future of Work Initiative National Advisory Council’s report, Solutions for a Changing Economy, outlines a set of policy recommendations designed to respond to the challenges around the future of work.

The Future of Work Initiative recently hosted a Capitol Hill briefing to discuss ways to modernize existing policies to address the needs of workers as they grapple with an increasingly automated economy.

Roundtable led by MIT Work of the Future and the Future of Work Initiative examines how work is changing and the systems and supports necessary to meet the challenges in the 21st century.

Recent polls and surveys shed light on the question of how Americans are perceiving the impact of automation on their work and wellbeing.