Understanding Emerging Technologies, Racial Equity, and the Future of Work

This NSF funded project brings together experts from across the social sciences, computer sciences, and engineering. The major goal of the workshop is to develop a shared knowledge of the current social organizational and technological processes transforming labor markets, and lay out research questions that will engage computer scientists, engineers, and social scientists in imagining brighter futures. The workshop will produce communication products that will be shared with key stakeholders like labor and business leaders, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit advocates, as well as state and local policymakers. The communication products will aid in developing an informed central research agenda that will increase the likelihood of positive impact on technology, equity, and work. We anticipate this workshop will be an important, and much needed conversation around crucial questions of racial disparities in automation and work, particularly the social and technical challenges of shaping emergent technologies that are equitable and result in "good" jobs for a wider range of workers.

The project develops research questions and agendas around the following topics:

Artificial Intelligence and Job Training to Empower People
Who Designs New Technologies and for Whom
Self-Driving Cars and Who is Affected
How Cities can be Innovative and Racially Integrated
What is a Good Job and How all Workers can have one

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Organizers

Laurel Smith-Doerr
Principal Investigator

Enobong Branch

Henry Renski

Shannon Roberts

Shlomo Zilberstein

Posters

AI and the Future of Work

Knowledge Production

Driving and Automation

Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Skill

The New Spatial Mismatch

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Academic Participants

Name	Affilitation	Details
Ifeoma Ajunwa	Cornell University	Industrial and Labor Relations School
Renata Revelo Alonso	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen	University of Buffalo	Department of Geography
Ruha Benjamin	Princeton University	Department of African American Studies Program in the History of Science Department of Sociology Center for Health and Wellbeing Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies Program in Global Health and Health Policy
Margrit Betke	Boston University	Department of Computer Science The Image and Video Computing Group
Anna Branch	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Sociology Department, Chancellor's Office
Joel Branch	LucD
Carla Brodley	Northeastern University Department of Computer Science	Applied Machine Learning Group
Robbin Chapman	Wellesley College	Department of Education Provost's Office
Vincent Conitzer	Duke University	Computer Science Economics Philosophy
Jordan Crouser	Smith College	Department of Computer Science Statistical and Data Science
Haydee Cuevas	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	School of Graduate Studies Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Cedric De Leon	Tufts University	Department of Sociology
Tawanna Dillahunt	University of Michigan	School of Information Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ray Fouche	Purdue College	School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Jason Garvey	University of Vermont	Department of Leadership and Developmental Sciences
Juan Gilbert	University of Florida	Computer & Information Science & Engineering Human-Experience Research Lab
Michael Goodman	University of Massachusetts Dartmouth	Public Policy Public Policy Center
Darrick Hamilton	The New School	Department of Economics Milano School of International Affairs and Management
Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	National Center for Women & Information Technology
Kaye Husbands Fealing	Georgia Institute of Technology	School of Public Policy
Charles Isbell	Georgia Institute of Technology	School of Interactive Computing GVU Center + Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Kelly Joyce	Drexel University	Center for Science, Technology and Society Department of Sociology
Nancey Green Leigh	Georgia Institute of Technology	School of City and Regional Planning College of Design
Edward Malecki	Ohio State University	Department of Geography
Edward (Ned) Moore	Central Connecticut State University	Engineering
Alondra Nelson	Columbia University	Department of Sociology Social Science Research Council
Deborah Nightingale	National Academy of Engineering
Mia Ong	TERC
Jason Owen-Smith	University of Michigan	Barger Leadership Institute Institute for Research on Innovation and Science
Marie Paretti	Virginia Tech	Department of Engineering Education Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center
Henry Renski	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Landscape Architecture & Regional Plan Institute for Social Science Reseach
Shannon Roberts	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department
Susan Roberts	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Chemical Engineering Department Biology and Biotechnology Department Biomedical Engineering Department
Julie Shah	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Interactive Robotics
Laurel Smith-Doerr	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Sociology Department Institute for Social Science Research
Anna Swan	Boston University	Dept.of Electrical and Computer Engineering BU Photonics Center
Moshe Vardi	Rice University	Computer Science Dept. The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
Langdon Winner	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Science and Technology Studies
Shlomo Zilberstein	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Resource Bounded Reasoning Lab Information & Computer Science

Stakeholder Participants

Name	Affilitation
Kenneth Bailey	Design Studio for Social Interaction
Mareshia Donald	AWIS
Thomas Fitzgerald	Massachusetts State Police
Manish Gaurav	Burning Glass Technologies
Angela Johnson	Transportation for Massachusetts
Sandra Kogan	IBM
Ted Landsmark	Dukakis Center Northeastern University
Joseph McLaughlin	Boston Private Industry Council
Matthew Poirier	USDOT-FMCSA
Anjali Sakaria	Boston Federal Reserve
David Sittenfeld	Museum of Science
Katie Stebbins	UMass Presidents Office
Nancy Taylor	Old South Church Boston
Anika Van Eaton	Boston Private Industry Council
Ryan Wallace	Maine Center for Business and Economic Research
Victor Woolridge	UMass Housing Authority
Karen Yee	AWIS