CIPPEC
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Artificial Intelligence and other advanced ICTs are dramatically changing the way we produce, consume, and trade. What opportunities, challenges, and threats does the current industrial revolution pose for the world of work? Are we headed to a dystopic future where humans compete for work against robots, or can we manage to adapt institutions and skills quickly enough to allow workers to complement technology rather than competing against it? While the developed world implements comprehensive plans to achieve the latter outcome, the Latin American region also needs to direct actions to avoid a third frightful scenario: the status quo.
The region cannot afford to fear technological change and miss out on the opportunity for development brought by the fourth industrial revolution. There is evidence in place signaling challenges that the region needs to address to allow for more extended and diffused technological change, but these pieces of knowledge belong to different research fields and are still largely unsystematized. Without a narrative making sense of such diverse and complex issues, Latin America is at risk of misdiagnosis, with important consequences for policy design and implementation. With this in mind, this panel of experts from the fields of technology, skills, institutions, and labor markets aims to discuss the fundamentals of a Latin American specific narrative on the future of work.
Ramiro Albrieu – Principal Researcher at CIPPEC (moderating)
Joao Carlos Ferraz – Professor at Instituto de Economia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Matias Busso – Lead Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank
Irene Brambilla – Researcher at the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS), National University of La Plata
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