Andrew McAfee
Associate Director, MIT Sloan School of Management Center for Digital Business
Andrew McAfee is the associate director of the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management, studying the ways information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. Along with Erik Brynjolfsson, he is the author of Race Against the Machine and The Second Machine Age.
McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition, society, the economy, and the workforce.
AI might be coming for many of the jobs in the future. But not this kind, and not ever. Here’s why.
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Can computers be creative? Depends on whether you’re asking it to write music or write a novel.
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Andrew McAfee of the MIT Sloan School of Management discusses the ways in which automation threatens the jobs of tax preparers and lawyers.
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Our smartphones and other gadgets are just “the warm up acts” of the second machine age.
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