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Economist, AI & productivity scholar
I’m pretty confident that [AI will drive] productivity gains [...] I’m really concerned that it’s not going to be evenly distributed [...].
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AI Verified The provided Stanford SIEPR page, dated March 13, 2026, contains this statement in two consecutive sentences and explicitly attributes it to Erik Brynjolfsson. The stored excerpt’s [...] omissions match omitted source text, so the author, date, source URL, and content are consistent with the source. ([siepr.stanford.edu](https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/ais-job-whats-worker-do)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed Disputed: the March 13, 2026 Stanford Report and the original SIEPR article do attribute a very similar remark to Erik Brynjolfsson, but the wording is not verbatim. They quote: “I’m pretty confident that [AI will drive] productivity gains and about the wealth that is going to be created ...” followed by the same second sentence, whereas the submitted version changes the first sentence to “I’m pretty confident about the productivity gains ...” without marking an omission. ([news.stanford.edu](https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-workplace-job-disruption-advice-siepr-summit)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Quote by Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford economist, Digital Economy Lab director), 2026, from the Stanford Report article on the SIEPR Economic Summit (the provided source_url). Direct WebFetch returned 403, but web search confirmed the exact quote appears in this Stanford coverage: confident about productivity gains/wealth created but "really concerned that it's not going to be evenly distributed, and that a lot of people will be hurt in a significant way." Attribution and year 2026 correct; source URL is the genuine primary article. Vote "for" on statement "The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth" aligns — Brynjolfsson's concern about uneven distribution reflects support for broadly sharing AI's gains. Quote is relevant and captures the statement's meaning. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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