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Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson are researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-directors of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. They are recognized experts on the impact of digital technologies on business, the economy, and society, and have co-authored several influential works on the future of work and innovation.

Known for: Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

Books by Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

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Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future explores how businesses and societies can adapt to the rapid technological changes driven by artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and the power of the crowd. The authors analyze the balance between human judgment and machine intelligence, traditional assets and digital platforms, and core competencies and crowd-based innovation. Drawing on research from MIT and real-world examples, the book provides a framework for understanding and thriving in the digital economy.

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The Machine: Intelligence Beyond Intuition

When we talk about machines today, we mean something astonishingly different from what our twentieth-century predecessors imagined. Today's machines learn from data, refine themselves, and generate insights no human could reach in the same span of time. Artificial intelligence no longer just follows...

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Human vs. Machine: Complementarity, Not Competition

Throughout history, humans have celebrated the uniqueness of our reasoning, the subtlety of our judgment, the empathy behind our decisions. Yet the evidence of recent decades forces us to reconsider that pride. Across sectors, from credit analysis to medical diagnostics, data-driven systems have out...

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Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson are researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-directors of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. They are recognized experts on the impact of digital technologies on business, the economy, and society, and have co-authored several influential w...

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Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson are researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-directors of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. They are recognized experts on the impact of digital technologies on business, the economy, and society, and have co-authored several influential works on the future of work and innovation.

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