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Andrew McAfee (He/him)

Principal Research Scientist, Initiative on the Digital Economy, MIT

Andrew McAfee (@amcafee) studies how technological progress changes the world. He is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, and the inaugural Visiting Fellow in Google’s Technology and Society group. His most recent book is The Geek Way. His previous books include More from Less and, with Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age. He and Brynjolfsson are the only people named to both the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming American politics.McAfee was educated at MIT and Harvard and lives in Cambridge Massachusetts.

Sessions

Main Track

Applied AI: A conversation with Andy McAfee

In this interview with FWD50 co-chair Alistair Croll, Andy will separate AI noise from signal, describe how large organizations are applying AI, and underscore the importance of clear thinking and real measurement in deploying generative AI within government. See More.