Messy Jobs: The Work That AI Cannot Reach
Join Professor Luis Garicano, co-author of Messy Jobs, for a discussion of how artificial intelligence is reshaping work, careers, and the economy. As advances in AI spark fears about widespread job displacement, Messy Jobs offers a more nuanced and optimistic perspective on what the future of work may hold.
Drawing on economics, organisational theory and emerging evidence on the impact of AI, Professor Garicano argues that while many tasks will be automated, jobs are far more than a collection of tasks. They also involve judgment, accountability, coordination, tacit knowledge and human relationships, qualities that remain difficult to replicate with technology.
The conversation will explore which kinds of work are most likely to change, which may disappear altogether, and why many valuable forms of human work are likely to endure. It will also examine how workers, students, parents, managers and policymakers can adapt to a world in which cognitive tasks are increasingly automated.
Meet our speaker and chair
Professor Luis Garicano is a Professor of Public Policy at LSE and a CEPR Fellow. He returned to academia in 2022 after serving as a member of the European Parliament (MEP), where he was vice-president of the Renew Europe group, overseeing economic affairs and coordinating its work on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. Previously, he spent a decade at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was Full Professor of Economics and Strategy, and another decade at LSE as a full professor in the Departments of Management and Economics. He later served as Professor of Economics and Strategy at IE Business School in Madrid. He has also held visiting professorships at MIT, Columbia Business School, and London Business School.
Tony Travers CBE is the Interim Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy. Tony is also the Director of LSE London and Professor in Practice in the Department of Government at LSE.
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