Professor Christian Roessler, Economist, CalState

Presentation Summary:

"Do the Machines Need Us? How AI Changes the Way We Work and Learn

This talk briefly traces how we got to AI and highlights its main challenge via a true story that once baffled observers. We’ll get into the likely impact on businesses, innovation, and humans - and what employers should be looking for from an education today.

Bio:

Professor Roessler is an economist at Cal State East Bay, with previous appointments at the National University of Singapore, the University of Queensland (Australia), Erasmus University (Netherlands), the University of Vienna, as well as Rice University (TX) and Brown University (RI). A competitive chess player in his youth, Professor Roessler specializes in game theory, the study of strategic interactions. His research has been published in the “top five” economics journals, a distinction won only by a small fraction of professors in the field. His PhD is from the University of Melbourne (Australia); his recent interests include the economics of AI and decentralized networks.