Comment by Kenneth Rogoff

Economist; Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University and former Chief Economist of the IMF
AI threatens to widen the gulf between technological winners and losers, enabling wealthy countries to reap the rewards while consigning billions of people across the developing world to fall ever further behind.
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AI Verified Verified. The source URL resolves to Kenneth Rogoff’s Project Syndicate essay "The AI Economy’s Permanent Underclass" dated June 2, 2026. While the Project Syndicate page available to fetch shows only the introduction, a Guardian syndicated reprint carries the exact sentence and credits Kenneth Rogoff / Project Syndicate, and a second reprint at Tomorrow’s Affairs matches it verbatim as well. ([project-syndicate.org](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-boom-threatens-to-leave-billions-of-people-behind-by-kenneth-rogoff-2026-06)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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