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Erik Brynjolfsson

112 trust researcher @erikbryn.bsky.social · 6,085 followers @erikbryn · 231,258 followers
Director, @stanforddel.bsky.social Professor Stanford Institute for Human-centered AI, SIEPR, Stanford department of Economics and GSB Author https://amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies/dp/0393350649
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"A lot of people are under the mistaken idea that the only way that you get productivity from A.I. is by removing labor costs." — @erikbryn.bsky.social @nytimes.com looks at a case where AI makes workers more productive, rather than replacing them: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/b...

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  • Multiple companies across industries achieved significant AI productivity gains while preserving or growing headcount, per NYT's May 29 investigation.
  • AI in these cases redeployed workers to higher-value roles rather than eliminating positions, a pattern backed by company-level data.
  • The findings challenge a dominant 2026 media framing that treats AI-driven restructuring and headcount reduction as nearly inseparable outcomes.
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"Beyond the corpus of current human achievement, he said, exists 'this much bigger space, bigger than you know, as big as you can imagine, of things that have never been done before.'” Read @theatlantic.com's new profile on @erikbryn.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026…

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