Carl Benedikt Frey

At-a-Glance

Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Director, Future of Work at Oxford Martin School
Co-authored a 2013 study estimating 47% of U.S. jobs were susceptible to computerization
Author of "The Technology Trap" (2019)
Author of "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (2025)
Member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)
Completed his PhD in 2011 at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Biography

Carl Benedikt Frey is a Swedish-German economist and economic historian. He serves as the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and is a Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He also directs the Future of Work Programme and is an Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at the Oxford Martin School.