Recently appointed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been tapped by the US government to advise the Federal Reserve on "productivity and jobs" as well as matters related to AI and its impact on the economy.
Via press release published on an official government website, the Fed details five distinct taskforces, each co-led by a team of "external advisers" "with a mandate to follow the evidence, provide candid feedback, and produce rigorous findings for the Federal Open Market Committee." Essentially, the taskforces will advise the Federal Reserve on economic policy across five different categories: Communications, Balance Sheet Policy, Data, Inflation, and Productivity and Jobs, which is where Sharma has been assigned.
