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Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress
I think there are ways in which this is a misguided agenda. [...] It would have huge social consequences that are quite adverse.
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AI Verified Verified: Fortune’s article at the supplied URL, published February 22, 2026, contains the quoted two sentences in that order, with only “he said” omitted between them, and attributes them to Daron Acemoglu. The page also resolves to the same canonical single-slash URL, and MIT’s faculty page uses the same English author name. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/02/22/who-is-daron-acemoglu-nobel-laureate-ai-job-layoffs-economic-inequality-donald-trump//)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed Fortune’s February 22, 2026 article does attribute the remark to Daron Acemoglu, but the article’s actual wording is "this is a misguided agenda" followed by "It would have huge social consequences that are quite adverse." I did not find the exact bracketed wording "[the pursuit of artificial general intelligence]" in a reliable source; in context, "this" refers more broadly to the article’s preceding description of the AI/AGI focus, so the supplied quote is not fully verbatim. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/02/22/who-is-daron-acemoglu-nobel-laureate-ai-job-layoffs-economic-inequality-donald-trump//)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Source_url (fortune.com) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but I confirmed the quote verbatim via web search. In the Fortune article (Feb 22, 2026), Daron Acemoglu is quoted on the pursuit of artificial general intelligence: "I think there are ways in which this is a misguided agenda" and "It would have huge social consequences that are quite adverse." The bracketed clarification "[the pursuit of artificial general intelligence]" accurately reflects the article's context. Author attribution (Nobel laureate economist, MIT Institute Professor, author of Power and Progress) is correct. Year 2026 is correct. Vote "against" correctly aligns with statement #377 ("Build artificial general intelligence") — Acemoglu explicitly criticizes the AGI agenda as misguided with adverse social consequences. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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