Ideas: Steering AI toward the work future we want

Behind every emerging technology is a great idea propelling it forward. In the Microsoft Research Podcast series Ideas, members of the research community at Microsoft discuss the beliefs that animate their research, the experiences and thinkers that inform it, and the positive human impact it targets. Since 2020, researchers across Microsoft have conducted, surfaced, and analyzed key research into how people work as part of the New Future of Work research initiative. They’ve done this through a variety of lenses—from changes caused by the pandemic to the adoption of hybrid work practices to the arrival of increasingly capable AI models—with the goal of empowering people and organizations to redefine work in real time. In this episode, Microsoft Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow Jaime Teevan talks with researchers Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman, and Rebecca Janssen about the latest efforts: the Microsoft…