In their words · Updated July 27, 2026
MIT economist and Nobel winner
2 verified quotes on the record, July 15, 2026 to July 16, 2026. Every one is a character-for-character copy from its source; the lens colors mark the outlets and channels that carried the words, never the person.
As printed Jul 16
“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
Printed by Futurism Tech / AI Sixteen Nobel-Winning Economists Warn That Major AI Job Losses Are Coming ›
As printed Jul 15
“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
Printed by Noahpinion Tech / AI Why I didn't sign the "We Must Act Now" statement (yet) ›
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