Comment by Daron Acemoglu

Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress
Now with AI, at least the ambition is a machine that can do everything, or at least pervasively. [...] I would create new incentives for blue-sky technologies that can create new tasks, new competencies.
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AI Verified Verified in the Social Science Space transcript dated September 3, 2024: Acemoglu says, "Now with AI, at least the ambition is a machine that can do everything, or at least pervasively," and later, "... I would create new incentives for blue-sky technologies that can create new tasks, new competencies." Both passages are attributed to him in the source URL, and the submitted quote is a verbatim composite with an ellipsis covering omitted intervening text. ([socialsciencespace.com](https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2024/09/daron-acemoglu-on-artificial-intelligence/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3d ago
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