Jobs in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

AI in Action Event Series

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET

Georgetown University Copley Formal Lounge 37th and O Streets, NW Washington, DC

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Agenda

8:00 a.m.

Breakfast and Registration

9:00 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction

Timothy DeStefano, associate research professor, Georgetown McDonough

9:05 a.m.

Keynote Address: AI and the Future of Work: Lessons from History

Carl Frey, Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI and Work, Oxford Internet Institute

Moderated by Jonathan Timmis, senior economist, Office of the Chief Economist for East Asia and the Pacific, The World Bank

Theme: How Will AI Affect Existing Jobs?

10:05 a.m.

Academic Presentations and Discussions

Lee Branstetter, professor of economics and public policy, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University “Quantifying the Impact of AI on Productivity and Labor Demand: Evidence from U.S. Census Microdata”

Manuel Hoffmann, postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory for Innovation Science, Harvard University “Generative AI and Distributed Work: Evidence from Open-Source Software”

Sam Manning, senior research fellow, Center for the Governance of AIW "GPTs are GPTs: An early look at the labor market impact potential of large language models"

Moderated by Carl Frey

11:20 a.m. Coffee Break

11:40 a.m.

Industry Discussions on AI and the Impact on Existing Jobs

Teddy Bekele, chief technology officer, Land O’Lakes

Sowmya Gottipati, head of global supply chain technology, Estée Lauder

JoAnn Stonier, chief data officer, Mastercard

Moderator by Sam Ransbotham, professor of business analytics, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

Agenda

Theme: Will AI Create New Jobs and Skills?

1:45 p.m.

Academic Presentations and Discussions

Raveesh Mayya, assistant professor of technology, operations, and statistics, NYU Stern School of Business “The Impact of Large Language Models on Open-source Innovation: Evidence from GitHub Copilot”

Kris Mikel-Hong, assistant professor, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management “ When Advanced AI Isn’t Enough: Human Factors as Drivers of Success in Generative AI-Human Collaborations”

Carlo Pizzinelli, senior economist, International Monetary Fund

“Exposure to Artificial Intelligence and Occupational Mobility: A Cross-Country Analysis”

Moderated by Katherine Stapleton, economist, macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice, The World Bank

3:00 p.m.

Industry Discussions on AI and New Jobs and Skills

Brandon Karpf, vice president of programming, N2K Networks

Karin Kimbrough, chief economist, LinkedIn

Katia Walsh, chief digital officer, Harvard Business School

Moderator by Sam Ransbotham

4:00 p.m.

Coffee Break

Theme: What Are the Different Approaches to AI Regulation Around the World? How Should We Best Regulate AI?

4:30 p.m.

Policy Panel

Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses professor of law and international organization, Columbia Law School

Angela Zhang, professor of law, University of Southern California

Moderated by Scott Wallsten, president and senior fellow, Technology Policy Institute, and senior fellow, Center for Business and Public Policy, Georgetown McDonough

5:25 p.m.

Closing Remarks

5:30 p.m.

Reception

Hariri Building, First Floor

Speakers

Teddy Bekele

Chief Technology Officer, Land O’Lakes

Teddy Bekele serves as the chief technology officer, leading Land O’Lakes’ digital transformation by leveraging existing and emerging technologies to keep the enterprise and the federated system competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. Under Bekele’s leadership, the team implemented technology solutions and industry ecosystems that leverage disruptive technologies such as advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and internet of things to help retail and farmer customers produce more sustainable outputs. Bekele is also responsible for the information technology and information security functions implementing a comprehensive technology strategy that aligns with the organization’s goals and objectives.

Prior to his current role, Bekele served as vice president, Ag Technology, for WinField United as well as business CIO for WinField United. Bekele holds an MBA from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University.

Anu Bradford

Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization, Columbia Law School

A leading scholar on the European Union’s (EU) regulatory power and a sought-after commentator on the EU, global economy, and digital regulation, Anu Bradford coined the term the “Brussels Effect” to describe the EU’s outsize influence on global markets. She is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (2020), named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Her newest book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2023, and was recognized as one of the best books of 2023 by Financial Times.

Bradford is also an expert in international antitrust law. She spearheads the Comparative Competition Law Project, which has built a comprehensive global data set of antitrust laws and enforcement across time and jurisdictions. The project, a joint effort between Columbia Law School and the University of Chicago Law School, covers more than a century of regulation in over 100 countries and has been the basis for Bradford’s recent empirical research on the antitrust regimes used to regulate markets.

Before joining Columbia Law School faculty in 2012, Bradford was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. She also practiced EU and antitrust law in Brussels, has served as an adviser on economic policy in the Parliament of Finland, and as an expert assistant at the European Parliament. The World Economic Forum named her a Young Global Leader 2010.

Lee Branstetter

Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Lee Branstetter joined the Heinz College faculty in 2006 as a tenured associate professor. He has a joint appointment with the Department of Social and Decision Sciences. Branstetter is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. From 2011-2012, he served as the senior economist for International Trade and Investment for the President’s Council of Economic Advisors.

Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon, he was the Daniel J. Stanton Associate Professor of Business and the director of the International Business Program at Columbia Business School. Branstetter has also taught at the University of California, Davis, where he was the director of the East Asian Studies Program, and at Dartmouth College.

Branstetter has served as a consultant to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Science and Technology Directorate, the Advanced Technology Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and The World Bank. In recent years, Branstetter has been a research fellow of the Keio University Global Security Research Institute and a visiting fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry in Japan. Branstetter holds a B.A. in economics and mathematical methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University, and he earned his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard in 1996.

Timothy DeStefano

Associate Research Professor, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

Timothy DeStefano is an associate research professor at Georgetown McDonough. He is an applied economist, specializing in digital technology, artificial intelligence (AI), industrial robotics, firm productivity, and trade. His research focuses on the impact of digital technology on firm reorganization and performance through field experiments and observational data.

In the past year, DeStefano has collaborated with businesses to execute field experiments measuring AI’s causal effects on firm performance. His research also explores how fiber broadband and cloud computing affect firm productivity, organization, and employment. He has assessed policy interventions for European and Asia-Pacific governments on various economic outcomes.

Before coming to Georgetown, DeStefano worked at Harvard University’s Laboratory for Innovation Science, leading a new research area on data science and AI. He also served as an economist and policy analyst at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for five years and for the G20 for one year. His work has been presented at NBER meetings, the Royal Economics Society, and the Toulouse School of Economics, as well as to policymakers at the G20, OECD, The World Bank, Italian Parliament, and the Vatican. DeStefano holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Nottingham.

Carl-Benedikt Frey

Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI and Work, Oxford Internet Institute

Carl Benedikt Frey is a Swedish-German economist based at Oxford University. He is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI and Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and a fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He also directs the Future of Work Programme at the Oxford Martin School.

Frey completed his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in 2011. He founded the Future of Work program at Oxford and has taught at Lund University. Frey has been an economics associate at Nuffield College and a senior fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He has advised the G20, OECD, European Commission, and the United Nations, among others.

In 2013, Frey co-authored The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerization, which is widely cited and influential in policy making. His recent book, The Technology Trap, was a Financial Times Best Book of the Year in 2019. Frey’s work is frequently featured in major media outlets and he is a regular contributor to prominent publications.

Sowmya Gottipatir Head of Global Supply Chain Technology, Estée Lauder

Sowmya Gottipati is a highly accomplished business and technology leader who managed and delivered products across telecom, media, and retail industries to the market that are currently bringing $10B+ in revenues. She is currently the vice president and head of global supply chain technology, leading digital transformation and providing oversight of all technology solutions globally. Previously she was the vice president of technology for Estée Lauder in the brand’s CIO capacity.

Prior to Estée Lauder, she was vice president of digital and emerging technologies at NBC Universal. Gottipati drove technology innovation and helped deliver solutions enabled by emerging technologies. Prior to NBCUniversal, Gottipati served as a technology leader at AT&T where she managed and delivered products in data, web, mobile and cloud services.

Gottipati holds an M.S. in engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Speakers

Manuel Hoffmann

Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation Science, Harvard University

Manuel Hoffmann is a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University. His research focuses on labor, innovation, and health economics while leveraging experimental, quasi-experimental, and structural methods to answer exciting research questions that can improve individual and social welfare. He is affiliated with the Center for Population Health Sciences at Stanford University and the University of Heidelberg. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Texas A&M University. Prior to his doctoral studies, he obtained M.Sc. degrees in economics, business, and statistics.

Brandon Karpf (EMBA’24)

Vice President of Programming, N2K Networks

Brandon Karpf is an experienced professional with a background in military, private sector, and technology roles. They began their career as a Cryptologic Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy, later holding leadership positions at U.S. Cyber Command and the Department of Defense. Karpf co-founded a startup and worked as a cyber security consultant at KNC Strategic Services, providing strategic cybersecurity services. They also served as an adjunct professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and a curriculum developer at MIT. In the tech industry, Karpf has been a research engineer at MIT CSAIL, a data system engineer at the National Reconnaissance Office, and currently serves as executive director of New Markets at N2K Networks and executive producer at N2K Space.

Karpf holds an M.S. in technology and policy (computer science) from MIT, an Executive MBA from Georgetown University, and a B.S. in robotics and control engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy.

Karin Kimbrough

Chief Economist, LinkedIn

Karin Kimbrough leads a team of economists and data scientists that delivers research and insights from the LinkedIn Economic Graph. She previously worked as assistant treasurer at Google and as managing director and head of macroeconomic policy at Bank of America. She also served as vice president in the Markets Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the financial crisis.

Kimbrough holds a doctorate in economics from Oxford University, a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford.

In 2017, Kimbrough was recognized by Black Enterprise as one of the most powerful Black Women in Business. She is a member of Fannie Mae’s Board of Directors and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Academic Advisory Council.

Sam Manning

Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Governance of AI

Sam Manning’s work focuses on measuring the economic impacts of frontier AI systems and designing policy options to help ensure that advanced AI can foster broadly shared economic prosperity. Manning previously conducted research at OpenAI and worked on a randomized controlled trial of a guaranteed income program in the United States. Manning earned a master’s in international and development economics from the University of San Francisco.

Speakers

Raveesh Mayya

Assistant Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics, NYU Stern School of Business

Raveesh Mayya an assistant professor of technology in the department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at NYU Stern School of Business.

Mayya’s research focuses on digital platform policies and platform governance questions. He is deeply interested in understanding the impact of policy changes by platforms on all sides. He believes that quantifying both intended and unintended consequences of such policy changes help platforms to govern better. Some of his ongoing research intends to understand:

• What happens when mobile apps intentionally delay adopting a new Android privacy policy.

• How to enable interactions between viewers and content on Smart-Linear TVs.

• How banning food delivery platforms’ untested growth strategies can impact restaurants’ choices.

• How enabling free-floating tradability of platform specific digital tokens can backfire.

• What happens when an online marketplace discloses sellers’ physical location.

• How data protection regulations can alter consumers’ purchasing behavior.

Kris Mikel-Hong

Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management

Kris Mikel-Hong is an assistant professor in the Department of Organization and Human Resources at Renmin University’s Business School. He completed his undergraduate degree at New York University and earned a master of finance from Peking University. He later received his Ph.D. in business administration from Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management.

His research primarily focuses on the implementation of behavioral big data and AI integration in organizational settings, exploring how humans interact with artificial intelligence to enhance creativity, productivity, and other organizational outcomes.

His work has been published in Journal of Management, and in 2023, he was awarded the Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund Grant from the International Association for Chinese Management Research.

Carlo Pizzinelli

Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund

Carlo Pizzinelli is a senior economist in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). His research interests are labor economics, macroeconomics, and household finance with a focus on advanced economies. Before joining the IMF, he obtained a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Oxford.

Sam Ransbotham

Professor of Business Analytics, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Sam Ransbotham is a professor of business analytics. He teaches “Analytics in Practice” and “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence”at Boston College. Ransbotham served as a senior editor at Information Systems Research, associate editor at Management Science, and academic contributing editor at MIT Sloan Management Review. He co-hosts the Me, Myself, and AI podcast about using artificial intelligence in business, available on all major platforms.

The National Science Foundation awarded Ransbotham the NSF CAREER Award, one of the NSF’s “most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty,” for his analytics-based research in security. The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) honored Ransbotham with an INFORMS ISS Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award, which recognizes “early-career individuals who are on a path toward making outstanding intellectual contributions.” Ransbotham earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, an MBA, and a doctorate, all from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before earning his doctorate, he founded a software company with a globally diverse client list, including the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna), the Food and Agriculture Organization (Rome), the World Health Organization (Geneva), and the World Meteorological Organization (London).

Speakers

Katherine Stapleton

Economist, Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice, The World Bank

Katherine Stapleton an economist in the World Bank’s Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice. Stapleton is also a research associate at Oxford University’s Department of Economics and Center for the Study of African Economies and an External Research Fellow at the United Kingdom’s Institute for the Future of Work. Her work focuses on international trade, emerging technologies, innovation, climate policy, and development. In September 2020, she completed a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University and has since worked in the World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group’s Trade and International Integration unit. She was previously a visiting researcher at Stanford’s Department of Economics, a fellow of the Pathways for Prosperity Commission, and a fellow of the Overseas Development Institute.

JoAnn Stonier

Chief Data Officer, Mastercard

JoAnn C. Stonier is executive vice president, chief data officer for Mastercard. In this role, she is responsible for enterprise-wide data strategy and management to ensure the organization maximizes the value of its information assets. Stonier and her team of global professionals identify the opportunities associated with Mastercard’s information assets and assist in the development of the tools, processes, policies, and standards necessary to enable their use.

Previously, Stonier was executive vice president and chief information governance and privacy officer for the organization. In that role, she was responsible for worldwide privacy and information governance, leading those teams as well as leading regulatory engagement in this area. Prior to joining Mastercard in 2008, she was the chief privacy officer for American Express Company. She also held various roles of increasing responsibility at American Express, including chief operating officer, American Express Tax and Business Services; vice president, Acquisition Integration; and vice president and assistant to the chairman. Stonier has worked at Waldenbooks, Inc., PepsiCo, and started her career as an auditor for PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

In addition to her work at Mastercard, Stonier is an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute where she teaches business strategy and international business in the Design Management Master’s program.

Stonier received her Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University in Queens and her Bachelor of Science degree from St. Francis College.

Jonathan Timmis

Senior Economist, Office of the Chief Economist for East Asia and the Pacific, The World Bank

Jonathan Timmis is a research economist at the World Bank – East Asia and Pacific Chief Economist’s Office. He is also an external affiliate of the University of Nottingham’s Research Center on Globalization and Economic Policy, an affiliate of CESifo’s Digitalisation Research Group, and a fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Until recently, Timmis worked at the OECD’s Productivity and Business Dynamics Division and was a junior fellow of the Royal Economic Society and a fellow of the Overseas Development Institute.

Timmis researches the areas of digitalization and technological change, firm productivity, and globalization. His research has covered the effects of technology diffusion on trade and firm performance and the implications of changes in the structure of trade networks for firms.

Timmis completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Nottingham in 2015.

Scott Wallsten

President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute; Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Public Policy,Georgetown McDonough

Scott Wallsten is president and senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute and also a senior fellow at the Center for Business and Public Policy at Georgetown McDonough. He is an economist with expertise in industrial organization and public policy, and his research focuses on competition, regulation, telecommunications, the economics of digitization, and technology policy. He was the economics director for the FCC’s National Broadband Plan and has been a lecturer in Stanford University’s public policy program, director of communications policy studies, and senior fellow at the Progress and Freedom Foundation; a senior fellow at the AEI – Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies; a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; an economist at The World Bank; a scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; and a staff economist at the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He holds a Ph.D in economics from Stanford University.

Katia Walsh

Chief Digital Officer, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Katia Walsh is Harvard Business School’s inaugural chief digital officer, focused on delivering educational enhancement and commercial value through generative AI-powered products. Previously, she co-founded the Chief Customer Office at Prudential Financial, was Vodafone Group’s first chief data and AI officer, and was Levi Strauss & Co.’s first chief strategy and AI officer. Walsh is on the board of Securian Financial and the not-for-profit Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation. She has been recognized as a 2023 SwissCognitive Global AI Ambassador, one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco for 2022, and VentureBeat’s 2021 global AI Mentor. She holds a doctorate in strategic communication from the University of MissouriColumbia.

Angela Zhang

Professor of Law, University of Southern California

Angela Zhang is a leading expert on Chinese tech regulation and the author of Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism and High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy, both published by Oxford University Press. She is currently researching AI regulation and plans to teach and write on the topic. Formerly a global professor of law at New York University, Zhang joined USC as a professor of law in fall 2024. Her research, spanning law and economics, has appeared in top international law journals and earned her multiple awards, including the Concurrence Antitrust Writing Award and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the University of Hong Kong.

Zhang is frequently invited to speak at major antitrust conferences and is a sought-after commentator on Chinese regulatory issues. She has taught at King’s College London, practiced law in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and served as director of the Philip K. H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong. Zhang holds an LLB from Peking University, and LLM, J.D., and JSD degrees from the University of Chicago Law School, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation under Judge Richard A. Posner.

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Check out AI in Action’s past conference resources: www.worldbank.org/en/events/2023/05/15/artificial-intelligence-big-data-and-policy www.worldbank.org/en/events/2023/11/30/how-is-ai-transforming-firms

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