Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson

Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Stanford

PhD: MIT, 1991

AI Economics Digital Transformation Productivity

About

Erik Brynjolfsson is the world's leading researcher on the economics of AI and digital transformation. His books 'The Second Machine Age' and 'Machine, Platform, Crowd' have shaped how we understand technology's impact on productivity and labor. He directs the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.

Key Work

2022

The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like AI

Daedalus

Why AI should augment, not replace humans

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2023

Generative AI at Work

NBER Working Paper

First rigorous study of ChatGPT productivity effects

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2014

The Second Machine Age

Book

Influential book on AI and the economy

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Celebrating the pioneers of tech economics