National Academies Report on Artificial Intelligence & The Future of Work

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.

Tom Mitchell

Digital Fellow

Tom M. Mitchell is the Founders University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded the world’s first Machine Learning Department, and served as Interim Dean of the School of Computer Science (2018-2019). He is also a Digital Fellow at the Digital Economy Lab at Stanford. He has worked on machine learning and AI ever since his 1979 Stanford Ph.D., and he remains optimistic about its future. In 2010 Mitchell was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering “For pioneering contributions and leadership in the methods and applications of machine learning.”