Erik Brynjolfsson
Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab · 0 appearances on the record.
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He is an economist renowned for research on artificial intelligence economics, IT productivity, and how automation reshapes labor markets and organizational capital. He co-authored bestselling books including The Second Machine Age and co-founded Workhelix, an enterprise AI measurement platform.
The record, in short
What the tape says about how Erik argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
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284 words/min while actually speaking · 11.3 um and uh per 1k words
No argument clarity score for Erik Brynjolfsson: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.
Measured by listening to 2,926 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Erik Brynjolfsson is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →
Everything Erik Brynjolfsson said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
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