Understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on work and society is one of the great challenges of our time. I am delighted to be joining the Digital Futures Institute, an extraordinary group of interdisciplinary researchers, who are working at the frontier of these issues.
Dr Daniel Susskind, Research Professor
09 September 2024
Digital Futures Institute appoints Daniel Susskind as Research Professor
The Digital Futures Institute has appointed the economist, author and former government advisor as its new Research Professor.
Dr Daniel Susskind has joined King's Digital Futures Institute as Research Professor, and will be building on his research exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on work and society.
We are delighted to welcome Daniel Susskind as a Research Professor at the Digital Futures Institute. Daniel’s research into the intersection between economies, technological developments, climate issues, and systems of power is much needed to help us understand the human impact and the future consequences of current developments – his voice will be central to the Institute’s mission to forge a better future.
Professor Marion Thain, Chair-Director of the Digital Futures Institute
Previously, Dr Susskind worked in the British Government – as a policy adviser in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, as a policy analyst in the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, and as a senior policy adviser in the Cabinet Office.
Dr Susskind is a Fellow in Economics at Oxford University, and a Research Professor in the Department of Political Economy at King's. He is the co-author of the best-selling book, The Future of the Professions, and the author of A World Without Work (January 2020), described by The New York Times as "required reading for any potential presidential candidate thinking about the economy of the future”.
His latest book - Growth: a Reckoning - has been longlisted by the Financial Times as one of the Best Business Books of 2024 and by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2024.
His TED Talk, on the future of work, has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.
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