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Economist, AI & productivity scholar
AI could create significant unemployment if humans do not adapt fast enough; it could create malign new forms of inequality too.
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Erik Brynjolfsson, quoted in Annie Lowrey, “The Man Who Saw AI Coming,” The Atlantic, June 29, 2026.
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