Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu is Institute Professor at MIT. He is coauthor, with James A. Robinson, of The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty and Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. Find him on Twitter @DrDaronAcemoglu.

AI Can Still Be Redirected

Final response: It is not too late to put technology to work to create jobs and opportunities and to support individual freedom and democracy.

  • Daron Acemoglu

AI’s Future Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian

AI can be used for good—but only if we modify our approach.

  • Daron Acemoglu
with responses from
  • Rediet Abebe & Maximilian Kasy
  • Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Kate Crawford
  • Daniel Susskind
  • Andrea Dehlendorf & Ryan Gerety
  • Molly Kinder
  • Aaron Benanav
  • William S. Isaac & Shakir Mohamed & Marie-Therese Png
  • Lama Nachman
  • Rob Reich

AI’s Future Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian

AI can be used to increase human productivity, create jobs and shared prosperity, and protect and bolster democratic freedoms—but only if we modify our approach.

  • Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu responds to Dean Baker

Technology is the more potent source of change.

  • Daron Acemoglu

Response to Effective Altruism

Effective altruism might influence what we value.

  • Daron Acemoglu
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