News & Events

Stay in touch with the Future of Work Initiative at our upcoming events:

 

2024 Convening: March 8, 2024

  • More information coming soon!

Federal Grants and Research Funding Workshop: Feb 5 2024

  • Jay Goodwin, Chief of Basic Research and Senior Research  Scientist, Army Research Institute

Monthly Webinar Series:

  

Past Speakers

Distinguished Lecture, co-hosted with Computer Science and Engineering: December 1

  • Moshe Vardi, Rice University

 

News:

 

MSU drives conversation, research on the future of work

You have likely heard about ChatGPT, and you might even have the application downloaded on your phone. But have you thought about how technology — and artificial intelligence specifically — will impact your job and the future of work? Michigan State University’s College of Social Science launched the Future of Work initiative to answer this very complex question, starting by hosting the university’s first Future of Work Conference. Read More

New National Science Foundation Future Manufacturing Program Announced

The goal of Future Manufacturing is to support fundamental research, education, and training of a future workforce to overcome scientific, technological, educational, economic, and social barriers in order to catalyze new manufacturing capabilities that do not exist today. Read More

President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Today, President Biden is issuing a landmark Executive Order to ensure that America leads the way in seizing the promise and managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI). Read More

Charting the Automation of Hospitality: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review Examining the Evolution of Frontline Service work in the Face of Algorithmic Management

Recent investments in automation and AI are reshaping the hospitality sector. Driven by social and economic forces affecting service delivery, these new technologies have transformed the labor that acts as the backbone to the industry-namely frontline service work... Read More

The Evolution of Platform Gig Work, 2012-2021

We document the dynamics of tax-based measures of work mediated by online platforms from 2012 through 2021. We present a measurement framework to account for high reporting thresholds on some information returns... Read More

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