AI Salon ft. Ioana Marinescu and Konrad Körding

Join us for an off-the-record conversation with Ioana Marinescu and Konrad Körding on how AI will affect wages, jobs, and the overall economy.
We'll dive into the disagreements between economists and tech experts, how intelligence tasks and physical tasks will matter as AI progresses, and what different outcomes look like. We'd love a lively debate with the audience, especially folks who are working in the tech, economics, and policy space.
Speaker Bios:
Ioana Marinescu is a professor of Social Policy, Economics, and Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current projects focus on the economic implications of artificial intelligence and on policy tools, such as safety nets and competition policy, that can foster broad-based prosperity in an AI-driven economy. She is a member of Anthropic’s Economic Advisory Council and provides briefings and expert insights on labor markets, antitrust, and AI to policymakers, journalists, and private-sector leaders. She has served as a principal economist at the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
Konrad Körding is a professor of Bioengineering, Neuroscience, and Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he leads the Kording Lab. He also serves as Co-Director of the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains Program. His work operates at the intersection of causality, machine learning, and neuroscience, tackling fundamental challenges in understanding complex systems. With a uniquely interdisciplinary approach, the Kording Lab has become a hub for researchers interested in using data-driven methods to understand how brains compute and how causality can be inferred from observational data.