Pramod Khargonekar

NMC News:

Celebrate next week’s Engineers Week with a free public lecture by Pramod Khargonekar of the University of California, Irvine, from 5:30-7 p.m., Feb. 19 at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos.

Khargonekar, the vice chancellor for research and professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will present “Future of Work and Workers in the AI Era.” As automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies continue their remarkably rapid development, it is expected that many facets of work and lives of workers will be impacted. In this talk, Khargonekar will discuss some data and insights from historical examples of technological impacts on work and workers in the Industrial Revolution, followed by a discussion of AI as a general purpose technology. He also will cover emerging knowledge about how AI developments and a human-centered approach are impacting work and workers.

This event is free to the public and is sponsored by the Los Alamos National Laboratory Engineering Leadership Council, the National Security Education Center, Los Alamos ScienceFest, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee and the New Mexico Consortium.