演講者簡介 : Professor Carl-Benedikt Frey received his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in 2011. He is currently the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the University of Oxford. His research interests are Economics of AI, Future of Work, History of Technology, Innovation Policy, Urbanization and the Internet, Economic Growth, and Political Economy.
演講摘要 : For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world's largest, most advanced economies-the United States and China-have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, I offer a journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change. A recurring tension in history is: while decentralization fosters the exploration of new technologies, bureaucracy is crucial for scaling them. When institutions fail to adapt to technological change, stagnation inevitably follows. Only by carefully balancing decentralization and bureaucracy can nations innovate and grow over the long term-findings that have worrying implications for the United States, Europe, China, and other economies today.
