Anders Humlum

Assistant Professor, Chicago Booth

We're excited for our “AI in the Workplace” conference on May 28 at the University of Chicago, bringing together tech, industry, and academia.

Register here.

Preliminary conference program below.

Organizers: Anders Humlum, Evan Rose, Chenhao Tan.
Sponsors: the Kenneth C. Griffin Applied Economics Incubator and the Center for Applied AI.

  
      Time
      Session
      Speakers
    
      8:25–8:30
      Opening Remarks
      
      8:30–9:45
      Session 1: AI as Complement vs. Substitute
      
        Lukas Freund (Boston College)

        Hugo Reichardt (CREI)

        Bryan Seegmiller (Northwestern)

        Discussant: Erik Hurst (UChicago)
      
      9:50–10:50
      Panel 1: AI Capabilities Today and Tomorrow
      
        Vikas Chowdhry (Trumacare.ai)

        Tom Cunningham (METR)

        Eleanor Dillon (Microsoft Research)

        Danial Lashkari (NY Fed)

        Facilitator: Anders Humlum (UChicago)
      
      10:50–11:10
      Coffee Break
      
      11:10–12:10
      Panel 2: AI in R&D
      
        Sam Kwei (Google Gemini)

        Ahmed Njikam (Amazon)

        Chenhao Tan (UChicago)

        Facilitator: Andrey Fradkin (Boston University)
      
      12:10–1:10
      Lunch
      
      1:15–2:45
      Session 2: Early Warning Signs and the Transition
      
        Bharat Chandar (Stanford)

        Ben Hyman (UCLA)

        Guy Lichtinger (Harvard)

        Maxim Massenkoff (Anthropic)

        Discussant: Evan Rose (UChicago)
      
      2:45–3:05
      Coffee Break
      
      3:05–3:35
      Fireside Chat: Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI
      
        Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov (eBay)

        Facilitator: Sanjog Misra (UChicago)
      
      3:40–4:55
      Session 3: AI and Signalling in the Labor Market
      
        David Almog (Northwestern)

        Brian Jabarian (UChicago)

        Jesse Silbert (Princeton)

        Discussant: Zoë Hitzig (Harvard)