About the Talk:

How AI creates more jobs, better work, and new careers.

AI isn’t just changing the way we work — it’s reshaping the jobs landscape itself. Despite common concerns, early evidence suggests AI may reshape jobs as much as it replaces them — and with the right skills and safeguards, it can open more doors than it closes.

In this Forum session, OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji will discuss AI can raise productivity and wages while broadening access to good jobs — if we act with ambition and care. This conversation links the rooms where rules are written, the labs where technology is built, and the workplaces where people earn a living to show how AI can become a pathway to new opportunities for people everywhere.

About the Speakers:

Ronnie Chatterji, Chief Economist @ OpenAI

Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji, Ph.D., is OpenAI’s first Chief Economist. He is also the Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor at Duke University, working at the intersection of academia, policy, and business. He served in the Biden Administration as White House CHIPS coordinator and Acting Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, shaping industrial policy, manufacturing, and supply chains. Before that, he was Chief Economist at the Department of Commerce and a Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He is on leave as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and previously taught at Harvard Business School. Earlier in his career, he worked at Goldman Sachs and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Chatterji holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.

Natalie Cone, Community Architect @ OpenAI

Natalie Cone leads OpenAI’s interdisciplinary community, the Forum, a community designed to unite thoughtful contributors from a diverse array of backgrounds, skill sets, and domain expertise to enable discourse related to the intersection of AI and an array of academic, professional, and societal domains. Before joining OpenAI, Natalie managed and stewarded Scale’s ML/AI community of practice. She has a background in the Arts, with a degree in History of Art from UC, Berkeley, and has served as Director of Operations and Programs, as well as on the board of directors for the radical performing arts center, CounterPulse, and led visitor experience at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.