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Prasanna Tambe

Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Signed the letter · Academia · United States

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Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and faculty co-director of Wharton Human-AI Research. Holds a PhD in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from Wharton and S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. Author of work on the economics of technology and labor, including 'Digital Capital and Superstar Firms', 'Reskilling the Workforce for AI', and audits of language models in hiring, and co-author of 'The Talent Equation' (2013). Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.

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14 works in the co-authorship map · 2,770 citations across them

Sources

  1. Prasanna Tambe - Professor, Wharton School
  2. Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe - Wharton OID
  3. Digital Capital and Superstar Firms
  4. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source

In the network

8 co-authors on the map · PageRank #66 of 400 · bridge #38 of 400 · 1 step from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Automation, firms and productivity.

Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; what these numbers mean. See Prasanna Tambe on the map

Documented positions

Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? leans agree

His research finds AI creates the most value as a complement to domain expertise, and a co-authored op-ed expects AI to make workers more productive while adding tasks.

Evidence

  1. Reskilling the Workforce for AI: Domain Expertise and Algorithmic Literacy
  2. “a more likely scenario is that AI will create more tasks for workers to do, while also making them more productive” — source

Why researchers disagree on this · Who else says what

Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? disagrees

A co-authored op-ed argues AI is more likely to add tasks than eliminate jobs and predicts it will create more jobs than it eliminates, as past technologies have.

Evidence

  1. “But if they do, it will create more jobs than it eliminates, as has virtually all technology in the past.” — source

Why researchers disagree on this · Who else says what

Will AI widen inequality? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Should governments act on AI now? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

How fast will the impact arrive? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Selected work

Writes with

Lorin M. Hitt (5), Erik Brynjolfsson (2), Sharad Goel (2), Aaron Chatterji (1), Daniel Rock (1), David Holtz (1), Hila Lifshitz‐Assaf (1), John J. Horton (1)

Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (8 of 8 shown).

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