Seth Gordon Benzell

Seth’s research focuses on the economics of automation, digitization, and networks. Seth’s current projects at the lab include research on complexity and power laws in the economy, information technology and the scalability of different occupations, understanding experimental evidence from AI automation experiments, and global, macroeconomic, OLG-CGE modeling of automation scenarios.

Seth is an assistant professor of Management Science at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics. Before coming to Chapman University, Seth was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Seth received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston University in 2016. His dissertation advisor was Laurence Kotlikoff. He received a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in physics and mathematics from Tulane University in 2012.

Seth has presented his research at the US Capitol and as an expert for a US international public diplomacy mission. His work has been published in AEJ: Applied Economics, PNAS, Management Science, and other peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed outlets. He co-hosts a biweekly podcast on the economics of AI with DEL Fellow Andrey Fradkin.