Generative AI Integration: Effects on Labor and Workforce

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"Generative AI Integration: Effects on Labor and Workforce" examines how the rapid adoption of generative AI technologies is transforming the nature of work, labor markets, and workforce dynamics. This course is designed for HR professionals, business leaders, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding the social and economic impacts of AI integration in the workplace. You’ll explore how generative AI tools—such as text, image, and code generators—are reshaping job roles by automating routine tasks, augmenting human capabilities, and creating new types of...

Syllabus

Getting Started

Welcome to the course! In this module, we will begin with an overview of this third course in the Navigating Disruption series, Generative AI Integration: Effects on Labor and Workforce. After considering your workplace's readiness for AI, we'll explore AI impacts on jobs broadly and what we should expect to see. Lets get started!

Past & Future of Knowledge Work

In this module, we begin by considering the traditional value and work of white-collar jobs. Through understanding the value and outputs of white-collar jobs, we will then evaluate the ways in which AI will destabilize previously "safe" jobs. Armed with these evaluations, we'll ponder the question: are knowledge workers replaceable, and if so, what would the look like?

Redefining Relationships

In this final module, we'll examine the changing dynamics in the workplace that must be re-evaluated with the adoption of AI. We'll review AI policies from a variety of industries, and utilize these as the inspiration for drafting our own AI policies. You'll close this course by sharing your AI policy with your peers, and then by considering what the past tells us about our present reliance on and use of AI in our workplaces.