Distinguished CES Fellow 2025: David Autor

Expertise, Artificial Intelligence, and the Work of the Future

CES Munich Lectures in Economics 2025

Prof. David Autor, Ph.D.

Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor
MIT Economics, USA

18 November 2025, 6 p.m.
Große Aula, LMU Munich

Will epochal advances in Artificial Intelligence complement human expertise, thereby increasing its value, or render it increasingly unnecessary? During both the industrial and computer revolutions, the forms of expertise rewarded by the labor market changed substantially, with vastly uneven consequences for workers in different occupations and possessing different education levels. These forces will play out differently again in the AI era. While the future is a design problem not a forecasting exercise, David Autor will discuss the challenges that AI poses for the labor market, as well as some of the novel opportunities it offers.

The Munich Lectures are organized by CES in cooperation with CESifo and supported by a Munich Re sponsorship.