Panel: Will Robots Take Our Jobs?

Edward Miller (*Henry George School of Chicago*)* Administrative Director of the Henry George School of Chicago, a non-profit educational organization which provides educational opportunities to the public on the topic of classical political economy. He serves as a board member for the Center for the Study of Economics. Previously, he has worked with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. * *Andres Gomez Emilsson (Stanford Transhumanists Association) Andrés Gómez Emilsson studied Symbolic Systems (with an Artificial Intelligence concentration) at Stanford, and later finished a masters in computational psychology at the same university. During his time at Stanford he co-founded the Stanford Transhumanist Association and became good friends with David Pearce, taking on the flag of the Hedonistic Imperative. Thus his ongoing interest in the functional, biochemical and quantum substrates of pure bliss. He is currently working at a Natural Language Processing startup in San Francisco, and in his free time he develops psychophysical tools to study the computational properties of consciousness (for more seequaliacomputing.com) * *Julia Bossmann (Foresight Institute) Julia Bossmann is the president of Foresight Institute, a leading NGO on world-changing technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence. She holds a Masters degree with highest honors in brain & behavioral sciences from the University of Dusseldorf and neuroscience from USC. Julia’s professional experience includes scientific research in labs in Germany and in the USA, management consulting atMcKinsey & Company, technology R&D at Bosch Research and Technology, and entrepreneurship atAnticip8 andSynthetic.

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