Creating Shared Prosperity With AI: Stanford Digital Economy Lab’s Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson has a challenge for anyone worried about artificial intelligence: Stop asking what AI will do to us, and start asking what we will do with AI. In this episode of Me, Myself, and AI, the Stanford University economist explains why technology isn’t the biggest barrier to progress — people, organizations, and institutions are. […]
Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, encourages people to shift their focus from what artificial intelligence (AI) could do to humanity, to what humanity can accomplish with AI. He argues that the real barrier to progress is not technology, but people, organizations, and institutions which lag behind the rapid advancement of technology.
Brynjolfsson, co-author of "The Second Machine Age" with Andy McAfee, believes that our current economic understanding is not keeping up with the pace of technological advancements and that economic institutions and skills need to catch up.
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