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What Do American Workers Want from AI Policy?
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Wed, Aug 5, 2026
12 PM – 1 PM EDT (GMT-4)
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As AI technologies continue to improve, policies to regulate their use in the workplace and prepare for potential AI-driven job displacement, as well as degradation of job quality and working standards, are being debated ahead of the midterm elections.
Join us for a webinar addressing some of the most pressing questions around AI labor market policies:
Join us for a webinar addressing some of the most pressing questions around AI labor market policies:
- How are American workers thinking about the ongoing and future impacts of AI?
- How should employers, government, and worker organizations respond?
- How do differences across race, gender, education level, and occupation shape/influence workers’ demands for policy responses?
Speakers:
- Mary Beech, Fellow, Workshop; Visiting Fellow, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
- Alex Jacquez, Senior Vice President of Policy, Advocacy, and Research, Groundwork
- Michelle Miller, Director of Innovation, Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Harvard Law School
- Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director, Caring Across Generations, and President, National Domestic Workers Alliance; IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow
- Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (moderator), Herbert H. Lehman Professor of Government, Director of IGP’s American Democracy Initiative, and IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member, Columbia SIPA
Opening Remarks:
- Jennifer Klein, Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Professional Practice and Director of IGP’s Ann F. Kaplan Women’s Initiative, Columbia SIPA