Thu Dec 3 · 4pm

The Expertise Economy

Harvard University · Knafel Center · 10 Garden St. · Cambridge · MA (also on Zoom) · Cambridge

David H. Autor, head of MIT's economics department, gives the Kim and Judy Davis Dean's Lecture, arguing that what matters is not which jobs are “exposed” to technology but how technology changes the expertise a job requires. The lens accounts for four decades of rules-based computing and asks where AI will commoditize labour and where it will multiply expertise. Raffaella Sadun of Harvard Business School responds.