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Stanford Digital Economy Lab
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab
@DigEconLab
Bringing together the world's best minds, whether human or machine, to study how digital technologies can transform the economy @StanfordHAI
Director: @ErikBryn
- Erik Brynjolfsson to Join Stanford Faculty “The opportunity to lead the new Stanford Digital Economy Lab is a huge part of what attracted me to Stanford. Digital technologies, especially AI, are profoundly transforming our society and economy" @Stanford
- "I see a coming productivity boom. I see about a doubling of productivity growth in the coming decade as a result of [AI and other] technologies." - @erikbryn finance.yahoo.com/news/top-econo…
- "Breaking up facebook will not solve any of the market failures of big tech. We need social network portability, data portability, and social network portability. We need structural reform. Competition is key." @sinanaral is laying it out in the Dig Econ Lab Seminar right now.
- "A new study by Erik Brynjolfsson, at MIT, and five other economists, digs into the numbers on remote work. They...find that about half of the entire American workforce is now remote, which is higher than previous estimates."
- Just released: The spring issue of Dædalus titled AI & Society features Erik Brynjolfsson's article "The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence." Read it now: bit.ly/3JI37Xg @erikbryn @americanacad
- From @TheAtlantic: A conversation with @erikbryn about how AI will impact the workforce—and what can be done about it. Read "The Jobs Equation"
- Welcome to the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, @sarahHBana. Dr. Bana joins us as a Fellow and Post-doctoral Researcher. Read more about her work and interests: sarahbana.com #StanfordUniversity #digitaleconomy #futureofwork
- How do judges decide whom to jail? A deep learning algorithm discovered that a defendant's face accounts for 30% of the variation in their decision. Join us Mon 11/15 when @m_sendhil joins @erikbryn to discuss research on automation and human biases. stanford.io/3qqeixY
- JUST ANNOUNCED: Catherine Tucker (@ce_tucker) of @MITSloan will join us on 2/27 for our first seminar of 2023: "Data Deserts, Algorithms, and Inequality." Registration open now. A free, hybrid event. digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/event/catherin…
- Oct 27: Join us for our official launch with Condi Rice, Fei-Fei Li, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Susan Athey, Gov. Gina Raimondo and many more! Director @erikbryn is bringing togethr an all-star list of speakrs to examine how work is being reshaped by AI. tinyurl.com/y3xlq4ku
- What to expect from AI in 2024? "I expect mass adoption by companies that will start delivering some of the productivity benefits that we've been hoping for for a long time." - @erikbryn Read on to get more perspectives from @StanfordHAI faculty.
- Productivity effects of mechanization in late 19th century American manufacturing, using an extraordinary data set collected by the Department of Labor in the 1890s, from Jeremy Atack, Robert A. Margo, and Paul Rhode nber.org/papers/w27436
- AI and other digital technologies have been surprisingly slow to improve economic growth. But that could be about to change, says @erikbryn and @georgionomix.
