Launched earlier this year, the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future brings together a diverse team of MIT faculty and researchers from throughout the Institute, all seeking to understand the relationship between technology and work and how to best prepare workers for the future. To support its efforts, the task force has assembled two boards of experts (listed below). The advisory board includes leaders from industry, academia, labor, government, foundations, and other organizations, who will provide feedback and guidance to the task force. In addition, a research board of leading scholars in related fields will help to refine research-related questions and directions.

Leadership of the task force includes Elisabeth Reynolds, executive director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center (IPC) and lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning; David Autor, the Ford Professor of Economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics; and David Mindell, the Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, and a professor of aeronautics and astronautics.

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The research board includes: William Bonvillian, MIT lecturer; Rodney Brooks, founder, chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics; Josh Cohen, professor of law at Stanford University; Virginia Dignum, professor of social and ethical artificial intelligence at Umeå University; Susan Helper, professor at Case Western Reserve University; Susan Houseman, vice president and director of research at the W.E. Upjohn Institute; John Irons, director of the future of work at the Ford Foundation; Martin Krzywdzinski, principal investigator at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center; Frank Levy, Rose Professor Emeritus at MIT; Fei-Fei Li, professor of computer science at Stanford University; Nichola J. Lowe, associate professor of city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joel Mokyr, professor of economics and history at Northwestern University; Michael Piore, professor emeritus of political economy at MIT; and Gill Pratt, executive technical advisor and CEO of Toyota.