Daron Acemoglu

Now with AI, at least the ambition is a machine that can do everything, or at least pervasively. [...] I would create new incentives for blue-sky technologies that can create new tasks, new competencies. Unverified source (2024)

If we go down this path of destroying jobs [and] creating more inequality, U.S. democracy is not going to survive. [...] We may need wealth taxes, because anything else we do today is still going to lead to this huge wealth gap that exists in this co... more Unverified source (2026)

If we go down this path of destroying jobs [and] creating more inequality, U.S. democracy is not going to survive. Unverified source (2026)

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. Unverified source (2026)

My argument is that we currently have the wrong direction for AI. We're using it too much for automation and not enough for providing expertise and information to workers. Unverified source (2025)