person
Carl Benedikt Frey
Oxford economist; 'The Future of Employment' author
Oxford economist whose 2013 paper with Michael Osborne estimated that 47% of US jobs were at high risk of automation. Continues to publish on AI and labour.
Profile
expertise
External-domain expert
Recognised expert outside AI (philosophy, economics, biology, journalism) who weighs in on AI consequences from that vantage.
Oxford Martin School economist. Co-author of 'Future of Employment' (2013) on AI/automation displacement.
recognition
Field-leading
Widely known inside the AI and AI-safety community. Appears repeatedly in top venues, podcasts, or governance forums. Not a household name to outsiders.
Widely cited automation-economics research.
vintage
Pre-deep-learning
Active before AlexNet. The existential-risk frame matures (FHI, OpenPhil, EA). Public AI commentary still rare; deep learning not yet dominant.
Future of Employment 2013 with Osborne, defining pre-deep-learning automation-economics paper.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues labour-market impact demands policy response; complements the AI x-risk agenda with economic welfare concerns.
“About 47 percent of total US employment is in the high-risk category, meaning associated jobs could be automated in the next decade or two.”
Context: From the landmark 2013 Frey–Osborne paper.
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.