#daronacemoglu — Public Fediverse posts

This article has a lot of cud to chew on.

“[We should all hope]that AI won’t be that useful. If it were the case that 30%, 40% of new university graduates can’t find […] what would that do to democracy and social peace? Wherever that has happened in the past, you’ve had revolutions.”

“Revolutions […] are inherently unpredictable, shaped by the interplay of repression, redistribution, and the ambient attitudes of a generation. Social media adds a new variable that history offers no reliable guide to. “In the past, youth did not have Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter,” he said. “Perhaps that changes things. I have no idea.”

“But the direction of concern is clear. A generation of workers who trained and credentialed for an economy that AI has since restructured — and who feel economically stranded — is a constituency that has historically not stayed quiet. The grumbling at this spring’s commencement ceremonies, he suggested, may be an early signal.”

Read here:
https://fortune.com/2026/06/21/nobel-laureate-daron-acemoglu-ai-productivity-capitalism-democracy/

#GraduateEntry #GenAISlop. #GenAIBubble #FutureEmployment #GIA #Revolution #Capitalism #MarketsAndRegulations #SenselessDiscourse #FutureWorkforce #DemocraticInstitutionsAndMarkets #DaronAcemoglu #MIT #Economics #Productivity

“As #economists like the #Nobellaureates #DaronAcemoglu and #SimonJohnson argue, technologically driven outcomes are matters of choice, not fate. A new #technology does not decide how it will be used. Humans do.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/p...

The Pope and the AI Profiteers

#DaronAcemoglu on models for autonomous #agenticAI
"human #agency is critical for #human #learning & flourishing. The very act of making decisions & contemplating outcomes affirms our own sense of agency & purpose.. if #AI becomes pri'ly a means of accelerating #automation, any hope of widely shared prosperity will be dashed.. entire #society wld be subjected to "war-of-attrition" games in which AI agents push every conflictual situation to e brink of breakdown" #mustread
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2999774/two-models-for-future-autonomous-agentic-ais

Heute, am 10. Dezember 2024, werden die #Nobelpreise in Stockholm überreicht. Der Alfred-#Nobel-Gedächtnispreis für #Wirtschaftswissenschaften geht in diesem Jahr an die drei US-Amerikaner #DaronAcemoğlu, #SimonJohnson und #JamesARobinson.
Was ihre Arbeit auszeichnet, hat unsere Kollegin #PetraMensing, Fachreferentin für Biologie, Gartenbau, Umwelttechnologien und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, im #TIBBlog zusammengestellt: https://blog.tib.eu/2024/12/10/ueber-die-entstehung-von-institutionen-und-ihre-bedeutung-fuer-die-demokratie

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/14/world/nobel-prize-economics-2024/ #worldnews #nobelprize #economics #daronacemoglu #simonjohnson #jamesrobinson

Trío de investigadores gana el Nobel de Economía por sus trabajos sobre la desigualdad de riqueza entre naciones

El premio de Economía cierra la temporada Nobel de este año, en la que se distinguió los avances en inteligencia artificial con los premios de Física y Química.
La entrada Trío de investigadores gana el Nobel de Economía por sus trabajos [...]

#Bloque1 #DaronAcemoglu #Estocolmo #Impreso #JamesA.Robinson #Mundo #PremioNobelDeEconomía #SimonJohnson #ÚltimaHora

https://semanariouniversidad.com/mundo/trio-de-investigadores-gana-el-nobel-de-economia-por-sus-trabajos-sobre-la-desigualdad-de-riqueza-entre-naciones/