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Carl Benedikt Frey
Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute; Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford; Director of the Future of Work Programme
Speaker Carl Benedikt Frey is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Fellow at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He directs the Future of Work Programme at the Oxford Martin School and has held prominent roles at Nuffield College and the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Carl's research on automation and its impact on jobs has gained widespread recognition and has been cited over 6,000 times, influencing discussions at the highest levels, including the Council of Economic Advisors under President Barack Obama.
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Carl Benedikt Frey biography
Speaker Carl Benedikt Frey holds the position of Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and serves as a Fellow at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, starting from May 2023. Additionally, he is the Director of the Future of Work Programme and an Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at the Oxford Martin School.
Carl studied history, economics, and management and obtained a Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. With backing from Citigroup, he then went on to join the Oxford Martin School, where he established the Future of Work program. Moreover, he taught economic history at Lund University from 2012 to 2014.
Speaker Carl Benedikt Frey was appointed as an Economics Associate at Nuffield College in 2012. He also joined the Institute for New Economic Thinking as Senior Fellow. Carl continues to serve the Department of Economic History at Lund University as a Senior Fellow. Carl is a Fellow of the RSA.
In 2019, Carl joined the Bretton Woods Committee and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the New Economic Agenda. In 2020, he joined the GPAI, a project to encourage the responsible development and utilization of artificial intelligence.
Speaker Carl Benedikt Frey co-wrote a book talking about how automation will threaten 47% of all jobs. The methodology discussed in the study has received over 6,000 citations. This approach was utilized by the Council of Economic Advisors of President Barack Obama. John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight Show with John Oliver featured a discussion about the paper in 2019.
Frey has worked as a consultant and advisor for a variety of worldwide organizations, including governments, think tanks, and businesses. Among those the G20, the United Nations, the European Commission, and a number of Fortune 500 businesses. Furthermore, Carl contributes to a number of media outlets, such as Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, and Scientific American, to name a few. Additionally, he has published articles in the Wall Street Journal on the history of technology, the economics of AI, and the future of work.
More than 100 media outlets have covered his academic work. His work has also appeared in Bloomberg, The Economist, The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Magazine, and Le Monde. Aside from that, he has made numerous appearances on worldwide broadcast media like BBC, CNN, Sky News, and Al Jazeera.
The 2019’s Best Books of the Year list by the Financial Times included Carl’s most recent book, The Technology Trap.
Carl Benedikt Frey Speaking Videos
Dr. Carl Benedikt Frey - Saving labour: automation and its enemies
Carl Benedikt Frey - The Technology Trap
Carl Benedikt Frey Keynote Topics
Join future of work expert Carl Benedikt Frey on this fascinating keynote speech on the future of work, analyzing if this time is different with the advent of automatization and AI.
How will disruptive technologies like robotics and AI and trends like automatization of the workforce affect the future of work and employment? Join future of work expert speaker Carl Benedikt Frey on this fascinating keynote speech.
Will automation and AI destroy almost half of our actual existing jobs? If so, what can we do about it? Do governments have to step in and save labour? Or do companies and employees have to adapt to the new times and pivot? All these questions and more will be solved in this keynote speech by future of work expert speaker Carl Benedikt Frey from Oxford.
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