ESRI International Conference 2019
AI, Robotics and the Labor Market
1. Date
July 30th, 2019, 9:30-17:50
2. Venue
Room Aso, Tokai University Club (Kasumigaseki Building 35F)
3. Summary
- 9:30-9:35
- Opening remarks
- 9:40-10:00
- Keynote speech: Adapting to Technological Change with Artificial Intelligence
- Donald Kenkel, Chief Economist, CEA
- 10:00-10:20
- Q&A
- 10:20-10:35
- Coffee break
- 10:35-11:55
- First session: Empirical analysis; the effect of the introduction of AI and robotics on the labor market in Japan
- Chair: Nobuo Kagomiya, ESRI
- Daiji Kawaguchi, University of Tokyo
- Toshiaki Shinozaki,ESRI
- Comment: Robert J. Gordon, Northwestern University
- 12:00-13:30
- Lunch
- 13:30-14:35
- Second Session: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Innovation
- Chair: Atsushi Seike, ESRI
- Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto
- Comment：Koichi Kume, ESRI
- 14:35-14:50
- Coffee break
- 14:50-15:55
- Third Session: Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth
- Chair: Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago
- Charles I. Jones, Stanford University
- Comment: Koichi Futagami, Osaka University
- 15:55-16:10
- Coffee break
- 16:10-17:40
- Panel Discussion: How will AI and robotics affect the labor market?
- Coordinator: Alan Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley
- Panelist:
- Donald Kenkel, CEA
- Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley
- Shumpei Takemori, Council on Economic and fiscal Policy (CEFP)
- Atstushi Seike, ESRI
- 17:50
- Closing remarks
