Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962) is an American academic. He is a senior fellow and professor at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR, the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a best-selling author of several books. He is known for his contributions to the world of IT productivity research and work on the economics of information and the digital economy more generally.
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“In every election for the next 10 or 20 years, [automation] will become a more salient issue, and the candidates who can speak to it effectively will do well.”
Director of M.I.T.’s Initiative on the Digital Economy
