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Welcome everybody to this event, Skills in the Age of AI,
where we're going to be having a discussion about how AI is changing the world of work or potentially changing the world of work.
and thinking about how we might try to unlock the potential of AI
while we're still protecting workers' wellbeing at the same time.
So for people who haven't encountered me before, my name is Steve Machin.
I'm director of Center for Economic Performance and I'm a professor in the economics department here at LSE.
So I'm very pleased to be here today to chair this seminar.
We're going to be discussing potentially seismic changes to some and there may be less seismic changes to other and we'll think about that
as we kind of go through and hear what our speakers have got to say.
The kind of changes we're kind of facing in our working lives now.
So we have two highly eminent,
fascinating speakers who are going to tell us stuff about these kind of questions.
So first of all we have Nobel Prize winner Christopher Pissarides who is a colleague of mine,
a professor of economics department here at LSE and he's co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Work.
And we have Mary O. Mahoney who's professor of applied economics at King's Business School.
She's research director of the Productivity Institute and she's an affiliate with the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence,
ESCO.
So, just to say a little bit about both of them before we begin.