MIT Launches Initiative to Improve Job Quality and Equity in an Age of Technological Change
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The MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative aims to analyze forces eroding job quality and identify ways to improve equity.
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The initiative challenges the view that erosion of job opportunities is inevitable due to technology.
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The goals are to produce empirical research, develop a framework to understand how institutions shape technology's trajectory, and contribute to policy discussions.
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The next steps are to translate research into innovative pro-worker policy ideas, convene scholars and policymakers, and produce resources to bring the work to wider audiences.
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A key idea is developing AI tools that enable less-educated workers to perform expert tasks and create new productive tasks across skill levels.