Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the co-author of “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty."
Alarm over the rise of artificial intelligence tends to focus too much on some distant point in the future, when the world achieves Artificial General Intelligence. That is the moment when — as AI’s boosters dream — machines reach the ability to reason and perform at human or superhuman levels in most activities, including those that involve judgment, creativity and design.
AI detractors have focused on the potential danger to human civilization from a […]
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