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Comment by Daron Acemoglu
Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress
My argument is that we currently have the wrong direction for AI. We're using it too much for automation and not enough for providing expertise and information to workers.AI Verified source (2025)
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ai_verified: MIT News published on Dec. 6, 2024 directly attributes this exact two-sentence wording to Daron Acemoglu, so the quote is authentic and verbatim. A separate MIT Stone Center page shows the Feb. 25, 2025 MIT Technology Review article with the cited title, but the Technology Review page itself was not fetchable in search. ([economics.mit.edu](https://economics.mit.edu/news/daron-acemoglu-what-do-we-know-about-economics-ai))
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YouCongress
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· 18d ago
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Source URL (MIT Technology Review) returned HTTP 403, blocking direct fetch. Web search confirms Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu stated "My argument is that we currently have the wrong direction for AI. We're using it too much for automation and not enough for providing expertise and information to workers" in a February 2025 MIT Technology Review interview. Confirmed by MIT Technology Review, MIT Economics, and other outlets. Vote direction (against) is correct since Acemoglu argues AI is being used too much for automation (displacing workers) rather than augmenting them. Year (2025) and author attribution are correct.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1mo ago
replying to Daron Acemoglu