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Ben Armstrong’s research featured in the New York Times
“The problem was that the regime often crowded out new economic leaders and activities from emerging,” Armstrong wrote.
Read MoreJulie Shah featured in the Wall Street Journal
“It’s really easy to undervalue the judgment and experience that someone brings to what seems to be like a fairly simple task,” Shah said.
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A Smarter Strategy for Using Robots
Despite advances in automation technology, the promise of productive and flexible automation, with minimal involvement of human workers, is far from reality, for two main reasons. First, adoption of automation technology has been limited. Second, when firms do automate, what they gain in productivity they tend to lose in process flexibility, resulting in what the […]
Read MoreMIT Work of the Future scholars awarded generative AI seed grants
MIT Work of the Future faculty and scholars Julie Shah, Kate Kellogg, Retsef Levi, Tom Kochan, and Ben Armstrong were awarded seed grants to explore the social implications of generative AI.
Read MoreMIT Work of the Future awarded Google.org Responsible AI grant
Google.org awards MIT Work of the Future Responsible AI grant to study the impact of generative AI on work.
Read MoreBuilding the Infrastructure for Innovation: Three Lessons from the CHIPS and Science Act
A spotlight is on the U.S. semiconductor industry. After decades of decline, there is a wave of new investment from private industry and the federal government to jumpstart domestic chipmaking with the goal of making U.S. semiconductor production more cost competitive and technologically advanced. Whereas the United States did not have any chipmaking capacity at […]
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Julie Shah
Julie Shah is Faculty Director of the Industrial Performance Center and co-leads the Work of the Future Initiative.
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