Daron Acemoglu

The breathless race to advance the “frontier” is irresponsible. [...] Perhaps we shouldn’t drive it until it is roadworthy. [...] Ultimately, it is the race for artificial general intelligence, combined with faulty metrics and hasty choices on safety...

In the United States, for example, labor income is taxed significantly more than capital income. If a business pays a worker $100, it will have to hand over as much as $30 in tax and spending obligations. But paying $100 for automation equipment lead...

Good AI needs to complement humans, and this requires a redirection, because the current focus on AGI is, in all but name, an agenda for displacing humans from meaningful work.

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.