Workshop: Understanding Emerging Technologies and the Future of Work

智能、交互和高度网络化的机器在工作和工作场所中越来越重要。自动化正在从工厂车间转移到知识和服务行业。技术的潜在好处包括提高生产力和增加就业机会。但与工作相关的技术也会带来巨大的社会成本。由该奖项支持的研讨会将促进教育、社会和行为科学、计算科学和工程与利益相关者的融合。这个多元化的团队将定义关键的研究挑战，专注于人类，技术和工作的交叉点。融合是对来自多个领域的知识、理论、方法和数据的深度整合，以形成新的和扩展的框架，以应对科学和社会的挑战和机遇。两个研讨会将讨论人类技术前沿工作的未来。讲习班将重点讨论塑造公平的新兴技术所面临的挑战。他们还将考虑这些技术如何在未来的劳动力中吸引更广泛的人。讲习班的成果将包括报告、交流材料和在专业科学会议上组织跨学科小组。这次讲习班的具体重点是了解新技术的社会和技术层面。我们的目标是制定一项研究议程，帮助我们理解塑造新兴技术的挑战，从而为广大美国工人创造良好的就业机会。这包括一个研讨会，将汇集专家科学家来考虑：(1)不断变化的工作和技术组织如何影响收入不平等；(2)在开发人工智能和人类技术合作伙伴关系过程中如何做出决策；(3)如何从可能的工作满意度和就业结果的不平等方面制定评估新兴技术的方法；(4)劳动力发展和经济制度如何有助于广泛提供高薪稳定的工作。第二次讲习班将包括利益攸关方，并将侧重于如何在地方一级使用这些想法。

Intelligent, interactive, and highly networked machines are a growing part of work and the workplace. Automation is moving from the factory floor to knowledge and service occupations. The potential benefits of technology include increased productivity and more job opportunities. But technology connected to work can also carry substantial social costs. The workshop supported by this award will promote the convergence of education, social and behavioral sciences, computational sciences, and engineering with stakeholders. This diverse group will define key research challenges that focus on the intersection of humans, technology, and work. Convergence is the deep integration of knowledge, theories, methods, and data from multiple fields to form new and expanded frameworks for addressing scientific and societal challenges and opportunities. Two workshops will address the future of work at the human-technology frontier. The workshops will focus on the challenges of shaping emergent technologies that are equitable. They will also consider how the technologies will engage a wider range of people in the workforce of the future. The results of the workshops will include reports, communication materials, and the organization of interdisciplinary panels at professional scientific meetings.The specific focus of this workshop effort is on understanding the social and technical dimensions of new technologies. The goal is to develop a research agenda that will help us understand the challenges of shaping emergent technologies in ways that result in good jobs for a wide range of U.S. workers. This includes a workshop that will bring together expert scientists to consider (1) how the changing organization of work and technology affects income inequality; (2) how decisions are made in developing artificial intelligence and processes for human-technology partnerships; (3) how to develop methods for assessing emerging technologies in terms of likely work satisfaction and inequality in employment outcomes; and (4) how workforce development and economic systems can help make high-paying stable jobs widely available. The second workshop will include stakeholders and will focus on how to use these ideas at the local level.