Pascual Restrepo

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Yale economist; Associate Professor studying automation, AI, and labor markets; frequent collaborator with Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu

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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy

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As computational resources expand, wages converge to the opportunity cost of computational resources required to reproduce human work, and the share of labor income in GDP converges to zero. Unverified source (2026)

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

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People have the wrong intuition when they say that if AI can do my job for ten dollars an hour, then my wage falls to ten dollars and my life is terrible. A world where AI can do research or teaching at that cost is a world where AI is extremely capa... more Unverified source (2026)

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