The rapid rate of adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform work, change the skills requirements of many jobs, boost productivity growth, and reshape the US economy. What can be learned from technological disruptive innovations in the 20th century in the US labor market that might inform the likely future impact of AI on today’s workforce?
Join David J. Deming, PhD ’10, Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Griffin GSAS Dean Emma Dench, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics, on November 21 as they discuss predicting the future of work with AI by studying the past.
Following the speaking program, enjoy drinks, appetizers, and stimulating conversation with fellow alumni and friends!
Event Details
Date and Time
This event will take place on Thursday, November 21, 2024.
- 6:00 p.m. – Doors open for check in and registration
- 6:30 p.m. – Program begins
- 7:30 p.m. – Reception
All times are Pacific Time.
Location
3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, CA 94303
Cost
- Harvard Griffin GSAS alumni and Harvard Club of Silicon Valley members: $30.00
- Recent Harvard graduates (’19-’24): $30.00
- Harvard alumni, members of the Harvard community, and all guests: $35.00
- Current students: $5.00
This event is open to all Harvard alumni and their registered guests. Registration is required for this event. Space is limited.
Harvard University and the Graduate School Alumni Association encourage people with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please let us know in advance at gsaa@fas.harvard.edu.
Speaker Bios
David J. Deming, PhD ’10
David J. Deming, PhD ’10, is the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also the Faculty Dean of Kirkland House at Harvard College and a Research Associate at NBER. From 2021 to 2024 he served as the Academic Dean of HKS.
Deming’s research focuses on higher education, economic inequality, skills, technology, and the future of the labor market. He is a Principal Investigator (along with Raj Chetty and John Friedman) at the CLIMB Initiative, an organization that seeks to study and improve the role of higher education in social mobility. He is also a faculty lead of the Project on Workforce, a cross-Harvard initiative that focuses on building better pathways to economic mobility through the school-to-work transition. He recently co-founded (with Ben Weidmann) the Skills Lab, which creates performance-based measures of “soft” skills such as teamwork and decision-making.
In 2022 he won the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to Labor Economics. In 2018 he was awarded the David N. Kershaw Prize for distinguished contributions to the field of public policy and management under the age of 40. He served as a Coeditor of the AEJ: Applied from 2018 to 2021. He writes occasional columns in The Atlantic and previously for the New York Times Economic View, as well as on his Substack newsletter Forked Lightning.
Emma Dench
Emma Dench is the dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics. Emma Dench was born in York, grew up near Stratford-Upon-Avon, and studied at Wadham College, Oxford (BA Hons Literae Humaniores) and at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (DPhil in Ancient History). Before taking up a joint appointment in the Departments of the Classics and of History at Harvard in January 2007, she taught classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been a Craven Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Rome Scholar and a Hugh Last Fellow at the British School of Rome, a Cotton Fellow, a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a Visiting Professor of the Classics and of History at Harvard, and a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellow.
Dench is the author of From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines, Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian, and “Imperialism and Culture in the Roman World” for the Cambridge University Press series Key Themes in Ancient History. Other current projects include a study of the retrospective writing of the Roman Republican past in classical antiquity.
While at Harvard, Dench received a Harvard College Professorship in recognition of “outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, mentoring, and advising,” a Marquand Award for Excellent Advising and Counseling, and an Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award for her mentorship of graduate students.
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The rapid rate of adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform work, change the skills requirements of many jobs, boost productivity growth, and reshape the US economy. What can be learned from technological disruptive innovations in the 20th century in the US labor market that might inform the likely future impact of AI on today’s workforce?
Join David J. Deming, PhD ’10, Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Griffin GSAS Dean Emma Dench, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics, on November 21 as they discuss predicting the future of work with AI by studying the past.
Following the speaking program, enjoy drinks, appetizers, and stimulating conversation with fellow alumni and friends!
Event Details
Date and Time
This event will take place on Thursday, November 21, 2024.
- 6:00 p.m. – Doors open for check in and registration
- 6:30 p.m. – Program begins
- 7:30 p.m. – Reception
All times are Pacific Time.
Location
3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, CA 94303
Cost
- Harvard Griffin GSAS alumni and Harvard Club of Silicon Valley members: $30.00
- Recent Harvard graduates (’19-’24): $30.00
- Harvard alumni, members of the Harvard community, and all guests: $35.00
- Current students: $5.00
This event is open to all Harvard alumni and their registered guests. Registration is required for this event. Space is limited.
Harvard University and the Graduate School Alumni Association encourage people with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please let us know in advance at gsaa@fas.harvard.edu.
Speaker Bios
David J. Deming, PhD ’10
David J. Deming, PhD ’10, is the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also the Faculty Dean of Kirkland House at Harvard College and a Research Associate at NBER. From 2021 to 2024 he served as the Academic Dean of HKS.
Deming’s research focuses on higher education, economic inequality, skills, technology, and the future of the labor market. He is a Principal Investigator (along with Raj Chetty and John Friedman) at the CLIMB Initiative, an organization that seeks to study and improve the role of higher education in social mobility. He is also a faculty lead of the Project on Workforce, a cross-Harvard initiative that focuses on building better pathways to economic mobility through the school-to-work transition. He recently co-founded (with Ben Weidmann) the Skills Lab, which creates performance-based measures of “soft” skills such as teamwork and decision-making.
In 2022 he won the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to Labor Economics. In 2018 he was awarded the David N. Kershaw Prize for distinguished contributions to the field of public policy and management under the age of 40. He served as a Coeditor of the AEJ: Applied from 2018 to 2021. He writes occasional columns in The Atlantic and previously for the New York Times Economic View, as well as on his Substack newsletter Forked Lightning.
Emma Dench
Emma Dench is the dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics. Emma Dench was born in York, grew up near Stratford-Upon-Avon, and studied at Wadham College, Oxford (BA Hons Literae Humaniores) and at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (DPhil in Ancient History). Before taking up a joint appointment in the Departments of the Classics and of History at Harvard in January 2007, she taught classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been a Craven Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Rome Scholar and a Hugh Last Fellow at the British School of Rome, a Cotton Fellow, a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a Visiting Professor of the Classics and of History at Harvard, and a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellow.
Dench is the author of From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines, Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian, and “Imperialism and Culture in the Roman World” for the Cambridge University Press series Key Themes in Ancient History. Other current projects include a study of the retrospective writing of the Roman Republican past in classical antiquity.
While at Harvard, Dench received a Harvard College Professorship in recognition of “outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, mentoring, and advising,” a Marquand Award for Excellent Advising and Counseling, and an Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award for her mentorship of graduate students.
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