Productivity and new technologies | Erik Brynjolfsson | Innoscape Talk #3

What is the impact of disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence on innovation activities? What are the implications for society?
Our third Innoscape Talk is dedicated to the topic of accelerating digitalization due to disruptive technologies. Erik Brynjolfsson (Professor at Stanford University) explains how new technologies evolve and collapse and shares his expertise on how artificial intelligence can impact our future work life.
00:00 Intro
00:22 What is the “Productivity J-curve”?
02:23 Why Europe lags behind in implementing new technologies?
05:25 What is the role of network effects and creative destruction in digital technologies?
09:33 Which role should AI systems of the future fulfill?
14:53 What can governments do to make the digital transformation more beneficial?
17:39 Which work-skills will be important in the future?
20:09 Will the Metaverse affect the organization of work and productivity?
23:49 What are currently the most pressing challenges of the digitalization?
25:48 What is your current research focus?
27:38 Outro
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Interview: Christian Rutzer
Question Script: Dragan Filimonovic, Matthias Niggli, Christian Rutzer, Till Schmidlin
Production: Bald Wolf Studio
Edited: Studio Frich
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Technology is certainly one of the key assets for development.