Creating Shared Prosperity With AI: Stanford Digital Economy Lab’s Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson has a challenge for anyone worried about artificial

intelligence: Stop asking what AI will do to us, and start asking what

we will do with AI.

In this episode, the Stanford University economist explains why technology isn’t the biggest barrier to progress — people, organizations, and institutions are. Drawing on new research into AI’s impact on jobs, productivity, and economic growth, he argues that the future isn’t predetermined: It will be shaped by the choices we make today. This is a timely conversation about human agency, shared prosperity, and why the most important AI breakthroughs may have less to do with technology than with how we use it. Read the episode transcript here.

Guest bio: Erik Brynjolfsson is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and

director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He is also the Ralph

Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy

Research, professor by courtesy at the Stanford Graduate School of

Business and Stanford Department of Economics, and a research associate

at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

A best-selling author, Brynjolfsson focuses his research on examining the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and performance, digital commerce, and intangible assets.

Me, Myself, and AI is a podcast produced by MIT Sloan Management Review and hosted by Sam Ransbotham. It is engineered by David Lishansky and produced by Allison Ryder.