Ben Pring

A widely recognized IT futurist, author and professional thought leader with a storied track record analyzing the cutting edge of business and technology, including the emergence and growth of Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering and Labor Arbitrage. A winner of Gartner’s prestigious annual Thought Leader award, a Bilderberg Meeting participant, a member of the advisory board of the Labor and Work Life program at Harvard Law School. Named as one of the 30 leading management thinkers by Thinkers 50 and one of the 10 leading influencers on the future of work by Onalytica. Co-author of the best-selling and award-winning books, What to Do When Machines Do Everything (2017), Code Halos: How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and OrganizaKons are Changing the Rules of Business (2014), Monster: Taming the Machines that Rule Our Lives, Jobs, and Future (2021) which was a Financial Times Book of the Month, and Certain Uncertainty: Leading With Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World (2023). Vice President, Center for AI and the Future of Work, Jobs for the Future, January 2026 - Present. I lead Jobs for the Future’s initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work.