Belinda Johnson
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- Milken Institute1h 0m
Trends Shaping Technology, Business and Society
Kara Swisher, Adrian Aoun, Belinda Johnson, Oscar Salazar, Hans Tung, Devin Wenig
Industry leaders including Devin Wenig, Belinda Johnson, and Oscar Salazar convened to address the profound societal disruptions caused by artificial intelligence, automation, and platform economics, predicting significant job displacement while highlighting human-centric countermeasures like the Airbnb community's creation of 730,000 roles. The panel critiqued Silicon Valley's lack of accountability and outdated regulatory frameworks, arguing that self-regulation and government partnerships are essential to manage political polarization and the growing anxiety among the economically insecure middle class. To mitigate these challenges, speakers advocated for universal basic income experiments, robot taxes, and urgent K-12 STEM education reforms to bridge the gap between technological efficiency and the preservation of human connection and creative design.
- Milken Institute58 min
Is the Sharing Economy the New Normal?
Josh Barro, Stacy Brown-Philpot, Kenny Dichter, Belinda Johnson, Alan Krueger, Artie Minson
Alan Kruger and industry leaders from Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit, Wheels Up, and WeWork analyze how platform economies are rapidly scaling to unlock idle assets and labor flexibility, currently serving under 1% of the U.S. workforce. While companies like Airbnb and WeWork drive immediate efficiency through community-based models and high utilization rates, experts warn that true macroeconomic productivity gains will only materialize once platform work expands to 5–10% of the total economy. Despite these growth projections, the sector faces critical regulatory hurdles regarding worker classification, prompting proposals for a new "independent worker" category to balance flexibility with essential social protections.