Bringing together the world's best minds, whether human or machine, to study how digital technologies can transform the economy @StanfordHAI Director: @ErikBryn

Stanford, California
Joined May 2020
Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
Kicking off Day 3 at #NABE2026 with @NelaRichardson discussing the shifting AI and talent paradigm focusing on how AI is shaping the demand for « tasks » — great collaboration between @ADP and @DigEconLab
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
New paper with @BKleinTeeselink! Measuring AI adoption and employment changes across 41 countries. This is some of the first evidence on global changes in labor markets from AI. Paper and Substack explainer + lit review at bottom of 🧵
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
Employment for young workers in AI-exposed jobs slowed in August, marking 35 straight months of contraction, according to new data from @DigEconLab and ADP Research. adpresearch.com/research/can… #AI #labormarket
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
AI is the most important technology of our era. I’m delighted to see so many insightful contributions to this volume that grapple with the big economic questions raised by transformative AI.
New NBER Book released: The Economics of Transformative AI nber.org/books-and-chapters/…
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
It's great to see more and more people, including @BillGates, recognize that we are not prepared for the massive change that AI will bring to the economy. I agree 100%. It's the reason I helped organize the "We Must Act Now" statement by economists and AI researchers. At the @DigEconLab, we are working to provide the data and insights needed to address that gap, including research Bill Gates cites in his essay. There's so much work to do but I'm optimistic we can rise to the challenge.
The Wall Street Journal
@WSJAug 26
"Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history," Bill Gates writes in a new, 12-page essay. on.wsj.com/4gTfp2M
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Replying to @DigEconLab
@DigEconLab and @stai_research just launched SimulacraBench — a NeurIPS 2026 competition in collaboration with @Refugees, @UNICEF, and the @WorldBankGroup. Teams can compete to validate whether AI can faithfully simulate hard-to-reach populations against unreleased UN microdata: simulacrabench.org
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
I'm honored to share my new op-ed, out this week in @FastCompany. New research from Stanford's @DigEconLab just gave us some of the first real data on how AI is reshaping work, and it shows young women in routine-heavy roles seeing the slowest job growth. This is in part because women, who still carry more of the household and caregiving load, end up penalized by the need for more predictable schedules. Claudia Goldin's research on workplace design explains so much of what we're seeing now. My take: this isn't a new problem AI invented. It's an old one AI just made impossible to ignore. In this article, I share what I learned building a company-run daycare at @NCSOFT. Here's the good news: AI doesn't have to widen the gender gap. Used well, it can close it by freeing people from routine work and letting judgment, relationships, and expertise take center stage. It is an opportunity for companies to build workplaces where talented people can do their best work while managing responsibilities that do not conform to a predictable schedule. Huge thanks to FastCo's @stephaniemehta and @Jon_Gluck for believing in this piece and its message. Read it here: fastcompany.com/91585058/ai-…
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
.@BharatKChandar, @RuyuChen and I just released an updated version of our paper "Canaries in the Coal Mine?" The headline is that we still don't see any widespread job displacement due to AI, but the earlier trends we identified hold up or even grow. E.g., the relative decline for young people in AI-exposed jobs widened to 19% by June 2026, from 15% in our first wave. We also looked at changes in interest rates, remote work, the tech sector boom and bust and remote work, but none of them seem to explain the effects we see for AI-exposed jobs. Bharat has a great thread below with more detial. It ends with links to the new paper and to a short blog post summarizing what's new. I'd love to hear what you think.
New + improved "Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts About the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence" w/ @erikbryn @RuyuChen No widespread job displacement, but gaps for AI-exposed 22-25 y/o widened to 19% by June 2026 in ADP sample Paper, summary ⬇️
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
New + improved "Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts About the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence" w/ @erikbryn @RuyuChen No widespread job displacement, but gaps for AI-exposed 22-25 y/o widened to 19% by June 2026 in ADP sample Paper, summary ⬇️
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
New labor productivity data out today. Nothing too crazy. We'll get the latest wave of economic statistics into the Transformation Tracker @DigEconLab on August 19th.
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
What’s a job worth? In this age of AI, that might be the wrong question. As AI tools are automating or augmenting everyday work tasks, ADP Research and @DigEconLab have found a way to measure the changing value of those job tasks. Get a first look at our data. adpresearch.com/research/unb… #AI #IT #labormarket
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
Fresh results for the AI Economic Indicators from @DigEconLab! We update our three pages: Adoption Monitor, Transformation Tracker, and Canaries Dashboard. Most notably, we now report our Canaries results separately for men and women.
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
Happy to have signed this: “Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.”
Here's our statement on AI and the economy. We Must Act Now A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy 1. AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years. 2. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards. 3. Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
If the trajectories of AI development observed for several years now continue, it is highly plausible that AI will drastically transform our economies. We must be intentional and make collective, democratic choices, rather than letting market forces play out and risking leaving most citizens behind. wemustactnow.ai/
Sixteen Nobel laureates are among the over 200 economists and AI researchers who've signed "We Must Act Now: A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy." Read the statement and view signatories at WeMustActNow.ai
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
Here's our statement on AI and the economy. We Must Act Now A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy 1. AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years. 2. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards. 3. Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
🚨 I join more than 200 economists and #AI researchers (including 16 Nobel laureates) in signing “We Must Act Now: A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy.” AI could transform our world at unprecedented speed, bringing enormous opportunities as well as significant challenges. We are not prepared and need to begin now! 👇 wemustactnow.ai/ @DigEconLab @StanfordHAI @erikbryn @professor_ajay @akorinek @VRWorldSociety – at Denver, CO
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
Really interesting work by the talented folks at @DigEconLab
The Transformation Tracker is part of the AI Economic Indicators project! It tracks progress toward transformative AI: a technology-powered economic transformation at least as significant as the Industrial Revolution but unfolding in a vastly shorter time. transformation.stanford.edu
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab retweeted
James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️
@JimPethokoukisJun 15
Meet the world’s top AI-pilled economists "This year the NBER is likely to host more conferences on health care than on AI. But some academic economists have seized the AI opportunity." @TheEconomist
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How AI will change the job market, and how to prepare: insights from 16 top economists, including SIEPR's Nick Bloom (@I_Am_NickBloom) and Stanford @DigEconLab economist Bharat Chandar. Gift link ⤵️ #FutureofWork #AI #Innovation wsj.com/tech/ai/economists-w…
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