In 2018, MIT convened its Task Force on the Work of the Future, which concluded in a 2020 report that while new technologies were not necessarily going to massively wipe out employment, smart practices and policies would be necessary to let automation complement good jobs. Today a successor group is continuing the task force’s effort: The Work of the Future Initiative, whose co-directors are Julie Shah, the H.N. Slater Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and Ben Armstrong, executive director and research scientist at MIT’s Industrial Performance Center. The…
