On the record · Updated October 1, 2026
MIT economist and Nobel winner
2 things Daron Acemoglu said, verbatim, from July 15, 2026 to July 16, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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“If you look at what robots did in the manufacturing sector, if AI does something equivalent in a more compressed time period, that would be really disruptive, really costly for people’s livelihood,”
on AI potentially replicating manufacturing job losses in a compressed timeframe
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“the current focus on AGI is, in all but name, an agenda for displacing humans from meaningful work”
on the claim that AGI development aims to displace humans from work
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