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Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress
If AGI means that AI models will reach expertise equivalent to the very best, perhaps top 1% of workers in pretty much all activities, that means that they will take over pretty much all jobs. So that would be an amazingly large effect, and it would have 100%, no doubt, an unequalizing impact on pre-tax income distribution.
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Daron Acemoglu, keynote remarks at the World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2026.
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Disputed Disputed: World Bank transcript says “because what AGI means ...”, not the stored “If AGI means ...”; canonical wording is recoverable. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1d ago
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