Daron Acemoglu

As AI reorders economies and concentrates power in fewer and fewer hands, the question is no longer whether democracy needs saving, but whether we can save it in time.

Replacing workers with machines is not the only way to improve economic efficiency. Rather than automating work, some innovations boost how much individuals contribute to production. Governments should foster competition and investment in technology ...

Many go even further. Ray Kurzweil, a prominent executive, inventor, and author, has confidently argued that the technologies associated with AI are on their way to achieving “superintelligence” or “singularity”—meaning that we will reach boundless p...