AI Education and Training

We’re working to ensure that education and training evolve as quickly as technology.
Research team
Susan Athey, Diyi Yang, Erik Brynjolfsson
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The purpose of this project is to equip workers, students, and organizations with the capabilities to thrive alongside AI, while mitigating over-reliance and inequities in access.

Evidence-based curricula and tools will help institutions and employers redesign roles, upskill workers, and ensure inclusive opportunities.

Examples of what we are building:

  • A next-generation O*NET that updates task and skill taxonomies for an AI-enabled economy.
  • Behavioral experiments to establish best practices for AI literacy and human-AI collaboration.
  • A “workgym” that prototypes collaborative AI agents in real work contexts to enhance human performance.

Featured researchers

Susan Athey

Digital Fellow

Professor Susan Athey is The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University and her PhD from Stanford, and she holds an honorary doctorate from Duke University.

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Diyi Yang

Assistant Professor

Diyi Yang is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford, affiliated with the Stanford NLP Group, Stanford HCI Group, Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), and Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). She is interested in socially aware natural language processing. Her research goal is to better understand human communication in social context and build socially aware language technologies to support human-human and human-computer interaction.

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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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