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Comment by Daron Acemoglu
Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress
How does it do that? Well, the tax system in the United States favors introducing machinery instead of people. If you hire people, you pay 30 percent tax. If you hire machinery, you pay zero tax. These are the kinds of things that we can easily change in order to alter the direction of research, the direction of innovation in the market economy. [...] Well, I would say I would get rid of the excessive incentives for replacing labor, such as through the one in the tax system, and I would create new incentives for blue-sky technologies that can create new tasks, new competencies.Verified source (Sep 3, 2024)
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The Social Science Space transcript at the cited URL, published September 3, 2024, contains the quoted passages in the same wording, with the [...] omission accurately bridging the interviewer’s question before Acemoglu’s follow-up sentence, and the remarks are explicitly attributed to Daron Acemoglu. The stored author, date, source URL, and quote text are therefore correct. ([socialsciencespace.com](https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2024/09/daron-acemoglu-on-artificial-intelligence/))
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Disputed. The cited Social Science Space transcript does attribute closely related remarks to Daron Acemoglu in September 2024, but not in the exact form submitted: it says “the tax system in the United States...” and, after an interviewer question, later refers to “blue-sky technologies.” The submitted version rewrites wording, omits text, and stitches separate passages together without [...], so it is not verbatim. ([socialsciencespace.com](https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2024/09/daron-acemoglu-on-artificial-intelligence/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
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