AI and the Future of Workplace Democracy

May 16

5:00 pm

Watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Ex1rin6Ew

Join the Burnes Center for Social Change and the Power at Work Blog on Thursday, May 16 at 5 p.m. ET for “AI and the Future of Workplace Democracy” with Professor Orly Lobel. Orly is one of the foremost legal experts on labor and employment law and will discuss her new book “The Equality Machine – Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future“. The conversation continues the Burnes Center’s Rebooting Democracy in the Age of AI series. Burnes Center Senior Fellow and former top White House labor policy advisor and Deputy U.S. Secretary of Labor Professor Seth Harris will moderate the discussion.

Orly’s new book “The Equality Machine – Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future” is a contrarian constructive response to debates on AI, automation, and datafication. The book examines distributive justice and the potential – as well as risks – of digital technology to tackle inequities in our labor markets, media, government, health, family, and intimate relations.

Orly is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and the Director of the Center for Employment and Labor Law (CELP). She is the award-winning author of several books and a leading scholar in behavioral law and policy. Orly regularly advises government and private industry on competition law and tech.

Seth is a Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University and Affiliated Faculty and a Senior Fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change where he runs the Initiative on Labor and Economic Justice. Prior to joining Northeastern University, Seth was the Deputy Assistant to President Biden for Labor and the Economy and Deputy Director of the Biden White House’s National Economic Council.

Rebooting Democracy in the Age of AI talks with innovative designers, thinkers, and changemakers from around the world working to “do democracy” differently. The lecture series explores how machine learning, natural language processing, generative AI, can enable more participatory and inclusive ways of solving problems and strengthen our ability to govern.

This conversation will be held on zoom. Register here.