Daniel Susskind
Research Professor in Economics, King’s College London | Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford University
Dr. Daniel Susskind is a bestselling author, a Research Professor in Economics at King’s College London, and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. Former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers has regarded him as “a compelling, insightful thinker on the largest and most fundamental economic topics.” His research examines the impacts of economic growth and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence on the future of work and society at large. He assesses the missteps in past and current economic paradigms and presents solutions that pave the way for a more promising future.
Susskind’s latest book, Growth, explores how we repair the damages born from humanity’s reckless pursuit of economic progress. While economic growth is responsible for some of society’s greatest triumphs such as longer, healthier lifespans, it is also to blame for our most serious problems including environmental destruction and rising inequality. Susskind argues that rather than intentionally stunting global economic prosperity, we must redirect it to better reflect our values. The book has been deemed “a wonderfully elegant and authoritative explanation-cum-manifesto for what is perhaps the most important economic issue facing us today—the mystery of economic growth and what we need to do to solve it."
Earlier books by Susskind offer a pragmatic and optimistic outlook on AI’s effects on labor and shine a light on the extraordinary prosperity waiting on the other side of technological disruption. His bestseller, The Future of the Professions, calls for an update to the antiquated ways in which professionals such as doctors, teachers, and lawyers perform their work in our increasingly digital world where artificial intelligence becomes smarter everyday. Originally published in 2015, the book was updated in 2022 to provide insight on the impact of recent technological advancements. His 2020 release, A World Without Work, was described by The New York Times as "required reading for any potential presidential candidate thinking about the economy of the future," and was named to many of the most prestigious Best Books of 2020 lists. His TED Talk debunking three prevailing myths surrounding the future of work has been viewed more than 1.6 million times.
Previously, Dr. Susskind worked in various roles in the British Government: as a policy advisor in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, a policy analyst in the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, and a senior policy adviser in the Cabinet Office. He was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University.
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