The AI Awakening: Implications for the Economy and Society
Course Overview
Our economic institutions, organizations, and skills have not kept up with rapid advances in AI. In this growing gap lie many of society’s greatest challenges and opportunities.
Led by Lab Director Erik Brynjolfsson, this Stanford Spring course (ECON295/CS323) explores how the advances in AI can and will transform our economy and society in the coming years. Each week, learn from frontier researchers and industry leaders in technology, economics, and business, read the relevant research, and discuss the implications.
In its first two years, the class hosted guest speakers including Mira Murati, Jack Clark, Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Alexandr Wang, Condoleezza Rice, Eric Schmidt, Mustafa Suleyman, Jeff Dean, Reid Hoffman, and James Manyika.
Topics include foundation models/LLM/generative models; vision and robotics; work and employment; bias and explainability; AI and geopolitics; business of AI; AI and creativity; AI and Democracy; and a world without work.
Primarily for graduate students; advanced undergraduates considered.
Instructor
Erik Brynjolfsson
Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor
Erik Brynjolfsson is one of the world’s leading experts on the economics of technology and artificial intelligence. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He also is the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), 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 (NBER).
One of the most-cited authors on the economics of information, Brynjolfsson was among the first researchers to measure productivity contributions of IT and the complementary role of organizational capital and other intangibles.
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Questions?
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Susan Young
susany@stanford.edu