“The rapid growth and adoption of AI and robotics will have uncertain but potentially serious and long-lasting consequences on employment, wages and the income distribution.”

Automation and the Future of Work

In advance of the 2018 G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec, CIGI participated in a major round table, held in January 2018, with G7 Sherpa representatives on automation and the future of work. In May, CIGI released Automation and the Future of Work: Scenarios and Policy Options by CIGI experts Joël Blit, Samantha St. Amand and Joanna Wajda. This paper informed discussions at the International Monetary Fund spring meetings, which featured participants from Canadian and Argentinian governments.

Building on these successful meetings, CIGI also accompanied the Rt. Honourable Paul Martin as part of a delegation sent to Buenos Aires to advance process and policy considerations as Argentina prepared to host the first G20 summit in South America.

CIGI Distinguished Fellow Paul Twomey contributed to the discussion about the future of work by proposing a human-focused framework for AI in the workplace that would allow G20 governments to protect their citizens from inadvertent biases written into AI and potential discrimination of already-marginalized groups.

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