Erik Brynjolfsson
7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 4, 2022 by Erik Brynjolfsson · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Jun 4, 2022 positive
Jun 4, 2022 negative
Society Over-Incentivizes Labor Automation Over Human Augmentation
“In the Turing Trap article, I argue that, as I said earlier, while both of those strategies can in principle be profitable, right now there are excess incentives to focus on substitution and automation, and then not enough to focus on complementing humans.”
Jun 4, 2022 neutral
AI Depresses Middle-Skill Wages Rather Than Creating Mass Unemployment
“It's taking certain tasks. It's not leading to mass unemployment, but it is shifting the demand for different types of skills, and so there are places where there's less demand and there's more demand, and wages in some areas are depressed when a machine can d…”
Jun 4, 2022 neutral
AI Cannot Fully Automate Any Single US Occupation, Study Finds
“What we found was that in most jobs, there were some tasks that machine learning could do better than humans, or would be able to if you applied the technology, and there's kind of a gold rush now to do that. But in not a single occupation, we looked at all of…”
Jun 4, 2022 bearish
Brynjolfsson: Next Tech Wave Will Disproportionately Hit Lower-Skill Jobs
“Our analysis that we did in a follow-up paper with Daniel Rock of Wharton suggests that as with the previous wave, the next wave of technology also will disproportionately affect some of the lower and middle skill jobs compared to the higher skill jobs”
Jun 4, 2022 positive
Davos Attendees Genuinely Want to Improve the World, Not Just Hoard Wealth
“I think a big misconception about Davos is is, you know, there's all, The plutocrats and all the wealth and power that's here. But the people who come here they really do seem sincerely interested in changing the world to make it better.”
Jun 4, 2022
Technology Is the Primary Driver of US Wage Structure Shifts
“Of the three, most economists would say that technology's the single biggest one. Larry Katz, who runs the quarterly Journal of Economics and who's, you know, leading labor economist, looked at many of these issues says that it's not even close.”