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AI + work: Building pro-worker AI

Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
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What is pro-worker artificial intelligence (AI), and how can we build it? On February 25, The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution hosted a virtual event to discuss pro-worker AI, why it matters, and if and how public policy could channel advances in AI to be more pro-worker.  

The event featured a panel discussion with Daron Acemoglu (MIT Institute Professor, NBER, and Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work), David Autor (MIT Economics, NBER, and Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work), and Simon Johnson (MIT Sloan School, NBER, and Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work), moderated by Natasha Sarin (Yale University).

In conjunction with the event, The Hamilton Project has released an essay from Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson.  

For updates on the event, viewers followed @HamiltonProj on Twitter/X and @hamiltonproject.org on Bluesky. To ask questions, viewers joined the conversation using #AIPlusWork or emailed [email protected]. 

Agenda 

2:00 p.m. | Welcome   

Aviva Aron-Dine, Director, The Hamilton Project, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution  

2:05 p.m. | Roundtable discussion 

Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, MIT 

David Autor, Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor, MIT 

Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management

Moderator: Natasha Sarin, Professor of Law, Yale Law School, Co-Founder and President, Budget Lab at Yale 

3:00 p.m. | Event adjourns 

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