Global Forum for AI and the Social Sciences | Day one

• Larry Kramer, President and Vice Chancellor, LSE
• Helen Margetts, Director, LSE Data Science Institute

• Cosmina Dorobantu, Co-Director, LSE Data Science Institute
• Florian Ostmann, Distinguished Policy Fellow, LSE Data Science Institute

• Mark Pearson, Acting Director, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD

• Caroline Fredrickson, Director, Research and Statistics Department, International Labour Organization

• Philippe Aghion, Professor of Economics, LSE Department of Economics

This session will focus on the impacts of AI on labour markets from a quantitative perspective. It will examine questions such as the exposure of different forms of human labour to AI-enabled automation, the emergence of new forms of labour, and the implications for aggregate employment. Bringing together recent LSE research and panellist perspectives, the session will assess the current state of evidence, identify the most important gaps and areas of uncertainty, and consider the research and methodological innovations needed to improve our understanding of AI’s quantitative labour market impacts.

• Ana Dujić, Director-General, Digital, Work, Society, German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
• Ekkehard Ernst, Chief Macroeconomist, International Labour Organization
• Colleen Kerr, Assistant General Counsel, AI Economy Institute Microsoft
• Donghyun Park, Director, Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy Management, South East Asian Central Banks Research and Training Centre

• Helen Margetts, Director, LSE Data Science Institute
• Dr Fabien Curto Millet, Chief Economist, Google

• Luis Garicano, Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy

This session will examine the implications of AI adoption for the conditions and experience of work. Bringing together recent LSE research and panellist perspectives, it will consider relevant dimensions of job quality, take stock of existing evidence on how AI may be affecting them, and identify the most important open questions and priorities for future research in this area.

• Stijn Broecke, Senior Economist, OECD
• Sabina Dewan, President and Executive Director, JustJobs Network
• Alberto Gago Fernández, Director-General, Spanish Artificial Intelligence Supervision Agency
• Laura Nurski, Head of Programme, Future of Work Centre for European Policy Studies

This session will consider how AI’s quantitative and qualitative impacts on labour markets and jobs play out in different national contexts. It will feature lightning talks with insights on AI-related labour market dynamics in South Africa, China, India, and South Korea, alongside time for observations and comments from the floor on other national contexts.

• Verónica Amarante, Director of Socioeconomic Research, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
• Haroon Bhorat, Director, Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town
• Kai Jia, Vice Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Deepak Mishra, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
• Ahram Moon, Research Fellow, Korea Information Society Development Institute

Building on the preceding session, this panel will feature regional perspectives on AI’s quantitative and qualitative impacts. Speakers from organisations with regional mandates covering Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific will consider intra- and inter-regional differences and reflect on the benefits and limitations of examining AI’s impacts through a regional lens.

• Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director, Social Development Division Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Symerre Grey-Johnson, Director of Human Capital, Social and Institutional Development, African Union Development Agency – New Partnership for Africa's Development
• Francis Upgi Kim, Director of Economic and Social Policy, International Trade Union Confederation - Asia Pacific

Speakers for this session will deliver a series of lightning talks, presenting examples of innovative research that draws on novel approaches and data sources to examine AI’s labour market implications.

• Ruth Curtice, Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation
• Marzieh Fadaee, Head of Research, Cohere Labs
• James Lee, Head of Public Policy and Economic Graph UK, LinkedIn
• Ed Teather, Global Lead, AI Policy Research and Partnerships, Amazon Web Services

• Holly Krambeck, Program Manager, World Bank