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Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress
If we go down this path of destroying jobs [and] creating more inequality, U.S. democracy is not going to survive.
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AI Verified Fortune’s February 22, 2026 article at the supplied URL contains the exact sentence, split across two lines, and attributes it to Daron Acemoglu in the interview context. That supports the quote as real, verbatim, and correctly attributed. ([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 · 19d ago
AI Verified Quote by Daron Acemoglu (Nobel laureate economist, MIT), 2026, from the Fortune article at the provided source_url. Direct WebFetch returned 403, but web search confirmed the exact quote text appears in this Fortune piece: "If we go down this path of destroying jobs [and] creating more inequality, U.S. democracy is not going to survive." Attribution and year 2026 correct; source URL is the genuine primary article containing the quote. Vote "for" on statement "The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth" aligns with Acemoglu's documented advocacy for shared prosperity, wealth taxes, and pro-worker AI to counter AI-driven inequality. Quote is relevant and reflects his support for broadly sharing AI's gains. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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