AI Won’t Take Your Job (But It Might Change It)

About this episode

Experts discuss the real impact of AI on jobs and organizations, debunking myths and exploring new opportunities.

Will AI replace us, reshape our work, or create opportunities we’ve never imagined? For this month’s episode experts Ben Waber and Raffaella Sadun join the podcast to help us cut through the hype and discuss AI’s real impact on jobs, skills, and organizations. Drawing from research and industry experience, they tackle the myths of total automation, the need for firm-specific experimentation, and the evolving skills and management strategies required in the age of AI. Join us as we take a pragmatic look at the challenges and opportunities as AI transforms how we work. Our guests: Raffaella Sadun is the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and is a co-chair of Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Her research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in corporations and the public sector. Ben Waber is a leading thinker at the intersection of management, data, workplace, and people. He is currently a visiting scientist at MIT and a senior visiting scientist at Ritsumeikan University. Previously, he was the president and CEO of Humanyze…

People in this episode

Guests: Ben Waber, Raffaella Sadun

Topics covered

• AI impact on jobs
• workplace transformation
• skills evolution
• management strategies
• automation myths

Keywords

• AI
• jobs
• automation
• skills
• management
• productivity
• workplace

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard Business School, MIT, Ritsumeikan University, Humanyze

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