Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), where he also serves as Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He is additionally the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Professor by Courtesy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Department of Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

One of the most widely cited scholars in the economics of information, Brynjolfsson has pioneered research on the productivity effects of information technology and the complementary roles of organisational capital and other intangible assets. His current work focuses on Transformative AI and its potential to reshape productivity, labor markets, and economic prosperity. At Stanford, he leads research developing the tools, evidence, and policy frameworks needed to help ensure that advances in AI broadly benefit society.

Brynjolfsson is the author of nine books, including the bestselling The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future. He has also published more than 100 academic articles and holds five patents. The Second Machine Age, co-authored with Andrew McAfee, was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard University in applied mathematics and decision sciences, and a PhD in managerial economics from MIT. His research has influenced public policy, business strategy, and academic thinking on technology, productivity, and the future of work worldwide.