Ready for the final round for new prestigious centre
NHH is moving forward in the competition to become a Centre of Excellence. `A major recognition of the academic community´, says Professor Katrine V. Løken.
MIT Professor to NHH: Which skills will pay off in the future?
Which tasks will disappear, which new ones will emerge – and who will be paid the most? This is the topic when MIT Professor David Autor gives this year’s Agnar Sandmo Lecture.
`Autor is one of the most important international researchers on technology, work and inequality´, Professor Kjell G. Salvanes says.
Which jobs will disappear has become one of the most common questions in the technology debate. MIT Professor David Autor argues that another question is just as important: Which tasks will change – and what will happen to the value of the skills that remain?
Lecture on 29 May
What will the labour market look like this autumn? Next year – or in five years?
On Friday 29 May, the American professor will give this year’s Agnar Sandmo Lecture at NHH. The title of the lecture is Expertise, Automation, and AI.
The lecture is open to everyone.
`Autor moves the AI debate away from the simple question of which jobs will disappear, and towards a more precise question: What happens to tasks, skills and wages when technology changes working life?´ says Kjell G. Salvanes.
Agnar Sandmo Lecture
The Sandmo Lecture is held annually in honour of Professor Agnar Sandmo (1938–2019), one of Norway’s foremost economists and an internationally recognised scholar.
He is Professor at the Department of Economics and the Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality (FAIR).
encourages NHH students
He encourages NHH students to attend Autor’s lecture.
A key concept in Autor’s work is “new work”: new occupational roles and areas of expertise that emerge when technology and the economy change.
`For a business school, this is absolutely central. We educate candidates for a labour market where AI will change both tasks and skill requirements. We therefore need to understand what kinds of human expertise will actually become more valuable´, says Salvanes.
