JUNE 25 2026
Reimagining the future of work – towards a right to shape AI
The recording of the morning programme is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/NywaHsAABvY?app=desktop&si=B6VBCXgYrHnEVbww&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=institute_for_ethics_in_ai_newsletter&utm_term=2026-06-26
In this one-day high-level conference, we explore the right to shape AI as key to the future of work in a democratic society. Hosted by Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI and the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights, the conference will bring together policy makers, academics, business leaders and employee representatives to explore concrete proposals to embed and renew human agency at work. Discussion will focus on the results of a recently released report on Democracy at Work commissioned by the Government of Spain led by Professor Isabelle Ferreras and on the ERC-funded iManage project led by Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl.
Keynote speakers will include Yolanda Diaz, Vice-Prime Minister of Spain and Minister of Labour, who will set out her government’s agenda in support of worker voice and ownership, and economics Nobel laureate Professor Daron Acemoglu, who is championing pro-worker AI. This will be followed by interactive sessions bringing together senior academics, policy makers and stakeholders from different jurisdictions around the world, anchored in concrete regulatory proposals and real-life use cases, collaborating to reimagine a future of work characterised by a right to shape AI.
The proposals advancing a Right to Shape AI at Work will be discussed through the conference and can be downloaded here via these two booklets:
Booklet 1: ‘International High-Level Expert Committee on Democracy at Work: 5 Key Proposals’
Booklet 2: ‘Regulating AI At Work: A Policy Blueprint’
Speakers/Hosts: Isabelle Ferreras (Chair of the International High-level Expert Committee on Democracy at Work, UCLouvain; Harvard Law School; Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford) Jeremias Adams-Prassl (member of the International High-level Expert Committee on Democracy at Work, University of Oxford; Magdalen College; Institute for Ethics in AI) and Caroline Green (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Keynote speakers: Yolanda Díaz (Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor and Social Economy of Spain) and Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Date and time: Thursday June 25th 2026, 08:30-17:30 BST/09:30-18:30 CET
Address: Jesus College, Turl Street, Oxford, OX1 3DW, UK.
Full programme, HERE
Link to register, HERE