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Stanford Professor Erik Brynjolfsson discusses the perils of focusing AI development on systems that outmatch human capabilities as opposed to systems that complement humans.

Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom shared his learnings from two decades of researching remote work on the Recalibrate Reality podcast. Professor Bloom states, “The reality of 2022 onwards is that hybrid is here to stay.”

Stanford Professor Erik Brynjolfsson talked about how humans and artificial intelligence can work together, and how AI is already changing work.

Stanford economics professor Susan Athey discusses the trends and future of artificial intelligence in the social sector. She emphasizes that universities can play a role in guiding the development of AI in directions that can be beneficial to humanity.

Microsoft Partner Researcher danah boyd shared insights from her multi-year ethnographic study of the U.S. census. She discussed how the U.S. Census Bureau’s decision to embrace differential privacy as part of its system to protect statistical confidentiality upended what people imagined the work of data to be.

In “The Inequalities of Innovation,” Santa Clara University law professor Colleen Chien examines the relationship between inequality, innovation, and patents.

Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom joins Prof Nirvikar Singh, University of California, Santa Cruz, to discuss the future of work on the “Ideas for India” podcast. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has become the norm for many organizations. This has raised questions about worker productivity and equity, work-life balance, and the future of commuting and cities.

Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom shares takeaways from his research over the past two and a half years on remote and hybrid work.

Dr. Kate Crawford, Research Professor at USC Annenberg, weighs in on the debate about the possibility of AI systems becoming sentient in the near future. She emphasizes that of more concern are “the types of biases or stereotypes that are very commonly built into these models.”

In a recent paper, Professors Daniel Spulber, Northwestern University, and Pere Arque´-Castells, University of Groningen, show that some of the external benefits of R&D are transmitted through markets for technology.