I am just returning from Boston where Meera Sampath and I participated in the EmTech Next Conference organized by the MIT Technology Review. The theme of the conference was automation and work. We gave a presentation on our work on Socially Responsible Automation (which came out earlier in the NAE Bridge Magazine a few months ago.) Lots of excellent presentations at this conference touching on various aspects of automation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, jobs, tasks, work, education, reskilling, regional and community impacts, role of regulation and policy, etc. It is indeed a very big topic, likely to become even more important. Our slides are posted at the Presentations tab.