Erik Brynjolfsson is a global expert on the economics of technology and AI. 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).

A leading voice on the economics of information, Brynjolfsson was among the first to quantify IT's impact on productivity and the role of intangibles like organizational capital. At Stanford, he leads research on Transformative AI—systems poised to rapidly reshape productivity, labor markets, and prosperity—developing frameworks to help ensure this shift benefits society.

Brynjolfsson is the author of nine books, including the bestsellers The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future. He has published more than 100 academic articles and holds five patents.

He is also Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Board of Workhelix, an enterprise platform that helps organizations find where AI can have the biggest impact, track adoption, and measure results over time — so they can know and grow the ROI of their AI.