NYU Stern's Economics of Robots Conference Program

Reception and dinner (Brasserie Beck)

Registration opens

Continental breakfast available

Introduction and overview

Presentations: Barriers to Adoption 

Moderator: Jeff Burnstein (Association for Advancing Automation)

• New research on barriers to adoption (Ani Kelkar, McKinsey)
• Role of integrators - European evidence (Anders Humlum, U Chicago)
• Role of integrators - US evidence (Nancey Green Leigh, Georgia Tech)

Coffee Break

Panel: Measuring Robot Quality

Moderator: Victor Bennett (University of Utah)

• Kim Normann Andersen (CBS)
• David Byrne (Federal Reserve)
• Susan Helper (Case Western/OMB)
• Ron Jarmin (U.S. Census Bureau)

Lunch Break

Panel: From Robots to AI

Moderator: Katya Klinova (Partnership on AI)

• Peter Cihon (GitHub)
• Pamela Mishkin (OpenAI)

Presentations: Effects of Robots on Workers 

Moderator: Betsey Stevenson (University of Michigan)

• Heterogeneous effects on labor (Lynn Wu, U Pennsylvania)
• Health outcomes (Osea Giuntella, U Pittsburgh)
• In depth study of de-skilled workers (Matt Beane, UC Santa Barbara)

Coffee Break

Panel: Labor Policy & Workforce Development

Moderator: Chris Meserole (Brookings)

• Amanda Ballantyne (AFL CIO)
• Claude Dinsmoor (FANUC)
• Allison Forbes (Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness)
• Anton Korinek (Brookings and UVA)

Closing & Next Steps

Closing Reception

Participant List