Erik Brynjolfsson
Economist, Stanford University
Signed the letter · Academia · United States
Economist at Stanford University and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Author of work on digital technology and productivity, including 'Race Against the Machine', 'The Productivity J-Curve', and 'Generative AI at Work', a study of a generative-AI assistant deployed to 5,172 customer-support agents. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.
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49 works in the co-authorship map · 14,241 citations across them
Sources
- Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
- The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies
- Generative AI at Work
- COVID-19 and Remote Work: An Early Look at US Data
- “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source
In the network
48 co-authors on the map · PageRank #1 of 400 · bridge #1 of 400 · the most central researcher on the map · cluster: Automation, firms and productivity.
Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; what these numbers mean. See Erik Brynjolfsson on the map
Documented positions
Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? agrees
Longtime argument that AI is a general-purpose technology with large productivity potential — gains lag adoption (his 'productivity J-curve') but arrive; now studies transformative AI's growth effects.
Evidence
Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? leans disagree
Emphasizes augmentation over automation (the 'Turing Trap' is a choice, not destiny): AI restructures work and creates new tasks rather than simply destroying more jobs than it creates.
Evidence
Will AI widen inequality? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Should governments act on AI now? leans agree
Calls for urgent research and institutional preparation for transformative AI's economic disruption.
Evidence
- A Research Agenda for the Economics of Transformative AI
- “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter urging policymakers to prepare for AI's economic impact” — source
How fast will the impact arrive? agrees
Writes that we are approaching transformative AI and that understanding its reshaping of the economy is urgent.
Selected work
- Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
- The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies
- Generative AI at Work
- Generative AI at Work
In the research collection - The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies
In the research collection - A Research Agenda for the Economics of Transformative AI
In the research collection - TaskNet: Building Occupational Task Inventories from Worker Interviews at Scale
In the research collection
Writes with
Daniel Rock (7), Kristina McElheran (6), Anton Korinek (3), Chad Syverson (3), Lorin M. Hitt (3), Sebastian Steffen (3), Ajay Agrawal (2), Avinash Collis (2), Emin Dinlersoz (2), Felix Eggers (2), J. Frank Li (2), Katherine C. Kellogg (2)
Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (12 of 48 shown).
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