Erik Brynjolfsson
Director of Stanford's Digital Economy Lab
Erik Brynjolfsson co-wrote The Second Machine Age and studies AI's effect on productivity and work. His research on call-center workers found an AI assistant helped newer workers most. He warns against the 'Turing trap' of building AI to replace people instead of augmenting them.
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