Description
Is the world today afflicted with excessive automation? In this lecture, Professor Daron Acemoglu will discuss automation and its consequences, including the potential economic, political, and social costs of the current path of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies. By displacing the developing countries’ most valuable resource—labor—with capital and algorithms, the current trajectory of technology adoption may be inappropriate for the needs of the emerging world. Led by Vice President Bambang Susantono, a panel of ADB senior researchers will join Professor Acemoglu to discuss how ADB can help its developing members to redirect technology and limit its damaging consequences for their workers and citizens.
Objectives
Webinar attendees will engage with the distinguished speaker to:
- Learn about the ways in which AI and automation favor corporations and negatively impacts workers.
- Discuss implications of new AI technologies for democracy and political discourse.
- Explore options for different trajectories of technologies and AI through regulatory and institutional reforms to create new jobs, benefit workers, and empower citizens.
How to register
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Resource speakers
Distinguished speaker
Daron Acemoglu
Institute Professor, Department of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Webinar host
Bambang Susantono
Vice-President
Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development
Asian Development Bank
Moderator
Madhavi Pundit
Economist
Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department
Asian Development Bank
Panelists
Albert Park
Chief Economist and Director General
Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department
Asian Development Bank
Cyn-Young Park
Director of Regional Cooperation and Integration Division
Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department
Asian Development Bank