Deric Cheng is the director of research at the Windfall Trust, where he leads efforts to ensure the economic benefits of advanced AI are broadly shared. He also leads the AGI Social Contract, a consortium of experts developing strategies for a new social contract in a post-AGI society. His current priority is expanding the research community, designing national preparedness plans for AI economic disruption. Previously, Deric served as AI governance lead at Convergence Analysis, where he hosted conferences on AI economic impacts and led fellowships on economic policy research. His earlier governance work focused on foundational policies, including chip registries, model registries, and soft nationalization. Before policy, Deric was the fifth engineer at Alchemy, an Ethereum infrastructure startup now valued at $10.2 billion, where he created web3.university, a learning platform serving over 200,000 students. From 2015 to 2018, he was a rapid prototyping researcher at Google’s Interaction Lab, where he invented the real-time translation feature launched on the original Pixel Buds in 2017.

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Richard holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics, at Harvard University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and is currently serving as faculty co-director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at the Harvard Law School. Professor Freeman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is currently serving on the AAAS Initiative for Science and Technology. Freeman received the Mincer Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Society of Labor Economics in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics. In 2011 he was appointed Frances Perkins Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. In 2016 he received the Global Equity Organization Judges Award, honoring exceptional contribution towards the promotion of global employee share ownership. Also in 2016, he was named a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association; the award citation describes Richard as “an enormously innovative labor economist who has made pioneering contributions to virtually every aspect of the field.” Professor Freeman’s research interests include the job market for scientists and engineers; the transformation of scientific ideas into innovations, Chinese and Korean labor markets; the effects of artificial intelligence and robots on the job market; and forms of labor market representation and employee ownership.

Liba Wenig Rubenstein is the director of the Future of Work Initiative.

Previously, Liba was the founding and lead social impact executive at MySpace, Tumblr, and 21st Century Fox, where she pioneered ways to harness companies’ financial, human, cultural, and technological resources for social, civic, and environmental progress and built bridges between sectors to amplify impact. She has helped found the Civic Alliance, chaired the board of premier youth vote organization the Alliance for Youth Organizing, served as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Consumption, and advised nonprofits Pop Culture Collaborative, KW Foundation, Vote.org, Social Impact Fund, CARE, Civic Nation, Why Tuesday?, and Invisible Children. Born and bred in Brooklyn, and a proud product of New York City public schools, Liba graduated from Yale University with distinction in American studies and now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two young daughters.