Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu challenged Elon Musk to pledge his entire $1 trillion fortune to charity by 2036, and Musk replied on X, "I am actually going to do something along these l…
Anthropic's new analysis finds no systematic rise in unemployment for workers highly exposed to AI since late 2022, despite predictions from its co-founder that half of entry-level jobs could vanish w…
Science fiction author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow argues in his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, that most people are being turned into servants of machines, not masters,…
Economist and AI researcher who declined to sign the 'We Must Act Now' statement on AI's economic transformation argues the statement is too vague, lacking specific policy proposals, and that signing …
Sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists, including Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT, signed an urgent letter warning that AI could drive an unprecedented economic transformation larger than the …
A guest post by University of Toronto economics professor Joshua Gans, published as part of EIG's American Worker Project, examines the economic implications of Dario Amodei's 2026 remark that automat…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organized by Stanford University's Digital Economy Lab demanding immediate action from policymakers and…
More than 200 experts, including 16 Nobel laureates, have signed an open letter organized by Stanford University's Digital Economy Lab warning that AI could reshape employment faster than previous tec…
More than 200 economists, AI researchers, and Nobel laureates signed a statement warning that AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years, driving an economic transformation larger th…
More than 200 economists, including 16 Nobel laureates and chief economists from OpenAI and Anthropic, signed a statement warning that AI could drive an economic transformation larger than the Industr…
More than 200 global economists and AI researchers, including 15 Nobel laureates, warned Monday that AI could disrupt the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution and called for urgent policy act…
A group of 70 prominent economists, policymakers, and technology leaders, including Erik Brynjolfsson, Daron Acemoglu, and Eric Schmidt, issued a statement warning that AI may become radically more po…
Over 200 economists, including 16 Nobel laureates and the chief economists of OpenAI and Anthropic, signed a statement admitting the profession is "flying blind" on AI and calling for urgent action to…
More than 200 experts, including Nobel Prize winners and tech leaders like Eric Schmidt and Reid Hoffman, have signed a letter warning that AI could become radically more powerful within a decade, cau…
More than 200 top economists, executives, and researchers, including over a dozen Nobel Prize winners, have signed a letter warning that AI could cause large-scale job displacement if policymakers do …
Engineers and economists warn that AI adoption in software development creates a productivity trap by accelerating only parts of the socio-technical system, leaving human bottlenecks that limit overal…
Economist Daron Acemoglu will discuss his forthcoming book on liberal democracy and shared prosperity, focusing on his recent writings about AI, in an upcoming interview.…
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu criticized 80% of AI discourse as 'brainless,' arguing that the focus should be on corporate power and monopoly rather than capitalism. The MIT economist estimated AI wil…
An AI expert argues that claims of 5-10x productivity gains from AI are unsupported by rigorous studies, which show real gains of 15-40% in specific tasks and near-zero impact on whole-economy product…