Erik Brynjolfsson
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Director @DigEconLab Co-founder, @Workhelix @StanfordHAI @SIEPR @Stanford https://t.co/D2bPyxoFEf
Stanford
Joined November 2009
And finally, from the Lit Desk: turns out poetry can be a sneaky way to get around AI guardrails. 10/10 https://t.co/VcjEipo3JA
wired.com
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
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Join us tomorrow as Sandy Pentland sits down with @nytimes reporter @CadeMetz to discuss his new book, Shared Wisdom! More details, as well as Zoom registration for this free event, are available on the event site:
digitaleconomy.stanford.edu
On December 2, 2025, the Lab is thrilled to host a conversation with Sandy Pentland, Stanford Digital Economy Lab Faculty Lead and Stanford HAI Center Fellow, about his new book, Shared Wisdom:...
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CIENCE is the GTM system behind 2,000 high-performing teams. We acquired CIENCE to train our models.
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Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
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@workhelix Here is the full article, featuring our fearless CEO, @JamesMilin
https://t.co/QsJmY9poNv
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Early adopters are piling in, but getting everyone else to use AI will take leadership, education and listening to the interns.
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Here's one excerpt: "When LogicMonitor commissioned @Workhelix to evaluate who actually was adopting AI, the company found that a cohort of early-career engineers based in India were leading the charge. Based on these results, LogicMonitor plans to encourage its senior,
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Do you DCA Bitcoin and feel like you always buy the top? We built SatStacker so your DCA buys happen at smarter times, using volatility. You still invest the same amount — it just adjusts the timing. Now on iOS and Android. Search “SatStacker”.
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The @WSJ has a terrific article today about how more and more companies are turning to @workhelix to understand how they can more effectively use AI.
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2/ "Killing any of the men in the boats 'amounts to murder,' said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign." https://t.co/IVcwXXbROy
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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Here's a wonderful interview with @janagallus
UCLA Magazine just ran a feature on my work (and a bit of my life) “What’s Your Incentive?” 👉 https://t.co/ZKfgehbvY5
#incentivedesign #fieldexperiments @uclaanderson @UCLA
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It would take Voyager ~75,000 years to reach the nearest star. No doubt a spaceship that leaves earth later will arrive sooner.
This is simultaneously a tremendous achievement (one light day is really far!) and a sobering realization that the universe is an incredibly vast place. In 50 years, Voyager has traveled ~1/1500th of the distance to the nearest star (Alpha Centauri, ~4.27 light years away).
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Who's working on an LLM-based tool to identify the 100 most poorly written or obsolete laws and regulations in each jurisdiction? It identifies the problem, provides evidence of why it needs to be changed and suggests new wording that a legislator can review, propose and enact.
Sometimes the speed limits do seem unreasonably low, but the answer is to change the law, not break it. Ditto for many other such cases where the law is poorly written.
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Sometimes the speed limits do seem unreasonably low, but the answer is to change the law, not break it. Ditto for many other such cases where the law is poorly written.
"The lack of a human driver is no longer the reason [Waymos] stand out most from regular traffic. They do so because they follow the speed limit. Indeed, cyclists and pedestrians are so used to drivers going 5, 10, or more miles per hour over posted speed limits, that Waymo’s
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6. Reduced demand for parking spaces and parking garages 7. Increased need for pick-up/drop-off zones near most commercial buildings. 8. Fewer families have second cars, or even first cars 9. Demand for "status-signalling" cars drops (or does it rise?) 10. Lower insurance rates
This will have a bunch of second-order effects, e.g. 1. A big decline in traffic accidents and fatalities, 2. More people willing to live and commute further from city centers, changing land values 3. Increased congestion leading to the need for congestion pricing, 4. The
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This will have a bunch of second-order effects, e.g. 1. A big decline in traffic accidents and fatalities, 2. More people willing to live and commute further from city centers, changing land values 3. Increased congestion leading to the need for congestion pricing, 4. The
We're officially authorized to drive fully autonomously across more of the Golden State. Next stop: welcoming riders in San Diego in mid-2026! ☀️
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🚀 Try Olmo 3-Think (32B) FREE until Dec 22! Our flagship open reasoning model tackles complex math, science, & coding problems—and you can now use it free via Parasail Serverless.
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The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 59k as manufacturing industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction & transportation has nearly zeroed out
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New data shows the number of international college students enrolling in American schools for the first time decreased by 17% this fall. These students pay tuition that subsidizes American students, and many stay in the US afterward to work as scientists and engineers. Policies
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AI agents are increasingly acting on our behalf. What does it mean for the economy, and how do we make it "better?" Lab Faculty Lead Professor Sandy Pentland has a lot to say about it. Watch his talk at the ADIA Lab Symposium here:
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"[The book] reveals a kind of balancing act, where humanity has won opportunities from AI, but also has to guard against unintended side effects that may challenge us in ways we never expected." -Forbes Sandy Pentland's Shared Wisdom is available now:
mitpress.mit.edu
In Shared Wisdom, Alex Pentland delves into the history of innovation, emphasizing the importance of understanding how technologies and cultural inventions i...
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Sad to see people eagerly eat up this viral post that assumes correlation is causation. The causal effect of school funding on outcomes is heavily studied in economics. Giving poor schools more money improves learning & economic outcomes. Sorry to burst your bubble.
It doesn't matter how much money you put into schools. Here's a cross-sectional overview. Per pupil spending and math scores.
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