Carl Benedikt Frey

Economics, Oxford University

Professor Carl Benedikt Frey is Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he directs the program on the Future of Work at the Oxford Martin School. After studying economics, history and management at Lund University, Professor Frey completed his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in 2011. He thereafter joined the Oxford Martin School, where he founded the program on the Future of Work with support from Citigroup. In 2019, he joined the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the New Economic Agenda, as well as the Bretton Woods Committee. In 2013, Frey co-authored “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerization?”, in which he estimated that 47% of jobs are at risk of automation. His most recent book, The Technology Trap, was selected as one of the Financial Times Best Books of the Year in 2019.

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The Race for AI Supremacy: U.S. vs. China
Carl Benedikt Frey & Thomas H. Davenport
September 9, 2020
The Robot Revolution Is Here, But It Is Still Early Days
Carl Benedikt Frey & Robin Hanson
January 6, 2020