Andrew McAfee, co-founder of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, will join the Russell Sage Foundation as a Visiting Scholar for the spring term, starting in January 2015.

McAfee, who was previously a professor at Harvard Business School and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of the 2009 book Enterprise 2.0, and co-author of the 2014 the book The Second Machine Age. McAfee’s current research focuses on the influence of information technology (IT) on business and how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete.

During his time in residence at the Foundation, McAfee will work on a book about the economic and social implications of recent rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). His study will trace the ways in which artificial intelligence is evolving, and analyze how these changes may impact jobs and wages, income inequality, and the health of individuals and communities.

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