person
Andrew McAfee
MIT; 'The Second Machine Age' co-author
Co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy; co-author with Erik Brynjolfsson of 'The Second Machine Age' (2014) and 'Machine, Platform, Crowd' (2017).
current Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan
Strategy positions
Techno-optimismendorses
Technology and markets solve risks faster than regulation creates themArgues digital technology is delivering compounding productivity gains and that AI is the latest, most powerful chapter; rejects techno-pessimist framings of stagnation.
We are entering a Second Machine Age in which digital technologies do for mental work what the steam engine did for physical work. AI is the next acceleration on that curve.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.