Erik Brynjolfsson
Brynjolfsson in 2013
Born1962 (age 61–62)
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materHarvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forProductivity paradox
The Long Tail
Bundling of Information Goods
Cyberbalkanization
Scientific career
FieldsInformation Systems
Economics
Technological Change
InstitutionsStanford University
Notable studentsShuman Ghosemajumder
Lorin Hitt
Yu (Jeffrey) Hu
Michael D. Smith
Marshall Van Alstyne
Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang

Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962) is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow[1] at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR,[2] the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research[3] and a best-selling author of several books.[4] He is known for his contributions to the world of IT productivity research and work on the economics of information and the digital economy more generally.[5]

Biography

Erik Brynjolfsson was born to Marguerite Reman Brynjolfsson and Ari Brynjolfsson, a nuclear physicist. He earned his A.B., magna cum laude, in 1984 and his S.M. in applied mathematics and decision sciences at Harvard University in 1984. He received a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics in 1991 from the MIT Sloan School of Management.[6]

Brynjolfsson served on the faculty of MIT from 1986 to 2020, where he was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy,[7] and Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business.[8] Previously, he was at Harvard from 1985 to 1995 and Stanford from 1996 to 1998.[9] In 2001 he was appointed the Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.[10] In February 2020, Stanford announced that Brynjolfsson would join its faculty in July, 2020.[11] He lectures and consults worldwide, and serves on corporate boards.

Brynjolfsson is of Icelandic descent.[12]

Teaching

At Stanford, Brynjolfsson teaches a graduate course on "The AI Awakening: Implications for the Economy and Society"[13] which has included guest lectures by Mira Murati, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, Alexandr Wang, Mustafa Suleyman and others.[14] At MIT, he taught the popular course 15.567, The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure, and Pricing, at MIT.[15] He hosts a related blog, Economics of Information.

Brynjolfsson gave a TED talk on the economic implications of AI in the opening session of TED in 2013 where he argued that the key to economic growth was to use AI to augment human capabilities rather than replace them.[16]

Public Service

Along with Tom Mitchell, Brynjolfsson co-chaired two committees for the National Academies of Sciences, one on "Automation and the US Workforce"[17] and one on "AI and the US Workforce".[18] He also directed the analysis of AI for the National Network for Critical Technology Assessment.[19]

Brynjolfsson has testified[20] about AI for the United States Congress and participated in AI Summits at the White House.[21]

In 2016, he co-founded the AI Index and serves on its Steering Committee[22] and was a co-author of the original (2016) report[23] for the One Hundred Year Study of Artificial Intelligence.

Awards

His research has been recognized with nine "best paper" awards by fellow academics, including the John DC Little Award for the best paper in Marketing Science.[24] Along with Andrew McAfee, he was awarded the top prize in the Digital Thinkers category at the Thinkers 50 Gala on November 9, 2015.[25] In 2015, he received the Herb Simon Award for his work on digital economics,[26] and in 2020 he was recognized with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Turku for his research on the effects of information technology and AI on innovation, productivity and future work.[27] Brynjolfsson was one of the inaugural fellows of the AI2050 initiative.[28]

Research

Brynjolfsson is widely cited for studying the economics of information systems.[29] He was among the earliest researchers to measure productivity contributions of IT and the complementary role of organizational capital and other intangibles.[30][31] Brynjolfsson has done research on digital commerce, the Long Tail , bundling and pricing models, intangible assets and the effects of IT on business strategy, productivity and performance.[32]

More recently, in his books The Second Machine Age and Race Against the Machine, Brynjolfsson and his co-author Andrew McAfee have argued that technology is racing ahead, and called for greater efforts to update our skills, organizations and institutions more rapidly.[33]

Information technology and productivity

Brynjolfsson wrote an influential review of the "IT Productivity Paradox" [30] and in separate research, documented a correlation between IT investment and productivity. His work provides evidence that the use of Information Technology is most likely to increase productivity when it is combined with complementary business processes and human capital.[31]

Measuring the Digital Economy

Working with Avinash Collis, Felix Eggers, and others, Brynjolfsson developed new methods for measuring the digital economy using "massive online choice experiments".[34] The insight from this work is that even when goods like Wikipedia or email have zero price, and therefore may have little or no direct contribution to GDP as it is conventionally measured, they may still contribute significantly to well-being and consumer surplus.[35] Brynjolfsson's method seeks to measure the consumer surplus from these goods and assess how it changes over time.

Entrepreneur and Inventor

Brynjolfsson has been the founder of three companies (Foundation Technologies, Inc. Flexplay Technologies, Inc. and Workhelix, Inc) and has been awarded five U.S. patents.[36] He also served on the Boards of Directors of two publicly-traded companies, Computer Science Corporation (2010-2015) and CSK Holdings, Inc. (2005-2008).[36]

Workhelix

Brynjolfsson co-founded Workhelix, Inc, a venture-backed firm that helps companies assess their opportunities for using generative AI and other technologies.[37] It applies the “task-based approach”, a methodology developed by Brynjolfsson, Tom M. Mitchell and Daniel Rock for analyzing various technologies’ ability to augment or automate individual tasks. [38]

Inclusive Innovation Challenge

Brynjolfsson was the co-founder of the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC), a global tournament for entrepreneurs harnessing technology to ensure a more equitable future. IIC winners have collectively generated over $170 million in revenue, raised over $1 billion in capital, created more than 7,000 jobs, and served 350 million people.[39]

References

  1. ↑ "Report of the Stanford University President". Stanford. December 9, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Erik Brynjolfsson to join Stanford faculty | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)". February 25, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Erik Brynjolfsson, Research Associate as National Bureau of Economic Research". May 20, 2023.
  4. ↑ "The Second Machine Age". May 20, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Erik Brynjolfsson Joins Stanford Faculty". May 20, 2023.
  6. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Erik Brynjolfsson Archived March 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine February, 2010.
  7. ↑ "MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: Erik Brynjolfsson". MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  8. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Erik Brynjolfsson Archived March 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine February, 2010.
  9. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Erik Brynjolfsson Archived March 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine February, 2010.
  10. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Erik Brynjolfsson Archived March 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine February, 2010.
  11. ↑ University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305 (February 24, 2020). "Erik Brynjolfsson to Join Stanford Faculty". Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved March 2, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ "SÍMTALIР... ER VIÐ ERIK BRYNJÓLFSSON Tölvuvæðing og framleiðni". www.mbl.is. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Stanford University Explore Courses". explorecourses.stanford.edu. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
  14. ↑ "Teaching". Erik Brynjolfsson. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
  15. ↑ "The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure and Pricing | Sloan School of Management | MIT OpenCourseWare". ocw.mit.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
  16. ↑ Brynjolfsson, Erik (April 23, 2013), The key to growth? Race with the machines, retrieved January 5, 2024
  17. ↑ www.nationalacademies.org https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/information-technology-automation-and-the-us-workforce. Retrieved January 6, 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ↑ www.nationalacademies.org https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/automation-and-the-us-workforce-an-update. Retrieved January 6, 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. ↑ "Erik Brynjolfsson". nncta.org. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  20. ↑ Brynjolfsson, Erik (September 24, 2019). "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work" (PDF). Congress.gov. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  21. ↑ "CSAIL director invited to White House AI summit | MIT CSAIL". www.csail.mit.edu. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  22. ↑ "AI Index 2023 | Stanford HAI". hai.stanford.edu. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  23. ↑ "2016 Report | One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)". ai100.stanford.edu. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  24. ↑ "Erik Brynjolfsson". INFORMS. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  25. ↑ "Thinkers 50". Thinkers 50. November 9, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  26. ↑ Bence, Stubnya (April 7, 2016). "Tömegek munkáját veszik majd el a robotok". index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  27. ↑ "University of Turku Confers 15 Honorary Doctors in May | University of Turku". www.utu.fi. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
  28. ↑ Medina, Gabe (February 16, 2022). "Schmidt Futures Launches AI2050 to Protect Our Human Future in the Age of Artificial Intelligence". Schmidt Futures. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  29. ↑ "Google Scholars in Economics of Information systems". Google Scholar. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
  30. 1 2 Productivity Paradox. OCLC 310949457. Retrieved July 4, 2021. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  31. 1 2 Bresnahan, Timothy F.; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hitt, Lorin M. (February 2002). "IT and Workplace Organization". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 117 (1): 339–376. doi:10.1162/003355302753399526. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
  32. ↑ "SIEPR Profile of Erik Brynjolfsson". Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
  33. ↑ "Washington Post Review of The Second Machine Age". Washington Post. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
  34. ↑ Brynjolfsson, Erik; Collis, Avinash; Eggers, Felix (2019). "Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-Being". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (15): 7250–7255. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.7250B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1815663116. PMC 6462102. PMID 30914458.
  35. ↑ Brynjolfsson, Erik; Collis, Avinash (2019). "How Should We Measure the Digital Economy?" (PDF). Harvard Business Review. 97 (6): 140–148.
  36. 1 2 Brynjolfsson, Erik (June 2, 2020). "Curriculum Vitae". Stanford University. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  37. ↑ "The Batch: What Matters Right Now". Deeplearning.ai. September 20, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  38. ↑ Brynjolfsson, Erik; Mitchell, Tom; Rock, Daniel (2018). "What Can Machines Learn, and What Does It Mean for Occupations and the Economy?". AEA Papers and Proceedings. 108 (May): 43–47. doi:10.1257/pandp.20181019. hdl:1721.1/120302.
  39. ↑ "MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge drives a more equitable economy". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. December 23, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
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