FW-HTF-P: Impact of AI Robotics on Labor (AIRL)

FW-HTF-P：人工智能机器人对劳动力的影响 (AIRL)

• 批准号: 1928616
• 负责人: Richard Freeman
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1928616&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FW; HTF; Impact; AI; Robotics

This award will fund efforts by the Harvard AI Robotics Labor (AIRL) project. The team will research advances in artificial intelligence and robotics that are likely to impact the workplace of the future and thus the employment and wages of American workers. It will assess the extent to which recent technological advances in robots and artificial intelligence are affecting current workers and the specific tasks they perform on the job. Since AI and robots are more cost effective substitutes for workers in some activities compared to others, the investigators will focus on specific work tasks in carefully defined occupational categories. The goal is to determine what tasks will be key to future jobs and what skills humans will need to succeed in those tasks. The findings of the project should help school and career counselors inform students and job seekers about the prospects in various jobs and to provide information to individuals, firms, and policymakers who seek to advance the well-being of American workers in the global economy.The project brings together a unique team of experts to assess the future of work. The project includes efforts to bring together the engineering and computer science experts who develop new technologies with the economics, sociology, psychology and business experts who study how firms implement technologies and change work tasks when technology changes. Past technologies have invariably created new jobs as well as altered older jobs, so the investigators will study how leading edge firms that have invested in new robots or in the latest work-related algorithms are reorganizing their work tasks among occupations, and the pay and benefits associated with different types of work. It will determine the skills and knowledge that workers will likely need in the new jobs as well as to continue working in existing occupations. Finally, since new technologies do not come out of the blue but are developed by engineers and computer scientists, and are influenced by business and government users of the technologies, the investigators will analyze the factors behind the choices of which tasks to digitalize or to develop robots to undertake, and the potential for moving those choices in worker-friendly directions. The ultimate goal of this project is to develop the necessary research personnel, research infrastructure, and foundational work to expand the opportunities for studying future technology, future workers, and future work at the level of a FW-HTF full research proposal.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项将资助哈佛人工智能机器人劳工(AIR)项目的努力。该团队将研究人工智能和机器人技术的进展，这些进展可能会影响未来的工作场所，从而影响美国工人的就业和工资。它将评估机器人和人工智能领域最近的技术进步对当前工人的影响程度，以及他们在工作中执行的具体任务。由于人工智能和机器人在某些活动中比其他活动更具成本效益，调查人员将专注于仔细定义的职业类别中的具体工作任务。目标是确定哪些任务将是未来工作的关键，以及人类需要哪些技能才能成功完成这些任务。该项目的结果应该有助于学校和职业顾问向学生和求职者通报各种工作的前景，并为寻求在全球经济中增进美国工人福祉的个人、公司和政策制定者提供信息。该项目汇集了一个独特的专家团队，以评估工作的未来。该项目包括努力将开发新技术的工程和计算机科学专家与研究公司如何实施技术并在技术变化时改变工作任务的经济学、社会学、心理学和商业专家结合起来。过去的技术总是创造新的工作岗位，也会改变旧的工作岗位，因此调查人员将研究投资于新机器人或最新工作相关算法的尖端公司是如何在不同职业之间重新安排工作任务的，以及与不同类型工作相关的薪酬和福利。它将决定工人在新工作中可能需要的技能和知识，以及继续在现有职业中工作的技能和知识。最后，由于新技术不是凭空产生的，而是由工程师和计算机科学家开发的，并受到这些技术的商业和政府用户的影响，调查人员将分析选择哪些任务数字化或开发机器人背后的因素，以及这些选择朝着有利于工人的方向发展的潜力。该项目的最终目标是发展必要的研究人员、研究基础设施和基础工作，以在FW-HTF全面研究计划的层面上扩大研究未来技术、未来工人和未来工作的机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。