Eric So

Eric So is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Global Economics and Behavioral Science at MIT Sloan, where his research examines how artificial intelligence, human behavior, and market incentives interact. A tenured full professor, he is a member of both the Global Economics and Management group and the Behavioral and Policy Sciences area at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Much of So’s current work is in applied AI, examining both sides of the human–machine interface: how people interpret and respond to AI advice, and how AI systems themselves develop emergent behaviors when deployed in real-world organizational settings. He leads the AI in Financial Markets and Decision-Making research group at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. At MIT Sloan, he serves as Faculty Co-Director of the AI Executive Academy and Lead Faculty for the Generative AI Hub for Teaching and Learning. His forthcoming book, The Collision: What AI Does to Us, explores the friction between AI capabilities and human judgment.

So joined MIT in 2012 after earning his PhD from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and his master’s in economics from Cornell. An award-winning educator, he teaches Applied AI and Quant Investing, and serves as Faculty Chair of the PhD program.