The threat that artificial intelligence poses to good jobs is not as new or unprecedented as it seems, note Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. bit.ly/4aV8f8F

Links to purchase the Japanese edition (volumes 1 and 2) of my book Power and Progress with Simon Johnson – as well as more information on all of our international editions – is available here. shapingwork.mit.edu/power-and-prog…

Poder e Progresso: Uma luta de mil anos entre a tecnologia e a prosperidade, the Brazilian edition of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, was released today from Editora Objetiva.
Get your copy here: companhiadasletras.com.br/livro/97885390…

What can history teach us about the future of #AI ? In a new working paper, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson find that mechanization dramatically reduced cotton weavers' wages, and apply lessons from this early example of automation to the age of AI.

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On Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024 the Center for AI Policy held a briefing for House and Senate staff on AI, Automation, & the Workforce—Surveying the Future of Work.

The speakers @RobinHanson (George Mason University) and Simon Johnson (@baselinescene, MIT), moderated by Jason…

Read the latest policy brief from Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, who argue we need a significant digital advertising tax to push social media companies away from a harmful business model of “attention above all' and 'boundless data collection.”

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Poder e Progresso: A nossa luta milenar pela tecnologia e prosperidade, the Portuguese edition of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, is now available (Brazilian edition coming April 30). Get your copy here: temasedebates.pt/produtos/ficha…

(1/5) Can David Ricardo, a founder of modern economics in the early 1800s, teach us something about #AI ? 👇🧵

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In the third edition of his seminal work of political economy, David Ricardo noted that, “If machinery could do all the work that labour now does, there would be no demand for labour.” The same warning holds today, write Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. bit.ly/3UrwK7I

The threat that artificial intelligence poses to good jobs is not as new or unprecedented as it seems, note Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. bit.ly/3UrwK7I

MIT professor Daron Acemoglu, MIT Sloan economist Simon Johnson, and their co-authors examine the barriers, risks, and potential rewards of using generative AI for design and manufacturing. mitsloan.co/3JnXeAQ

Recent research from AusTangential, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and co-authors on applying #AI in manufacturing is part of a larger, open-access collection of papers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the impacts of generative AI. Learn more from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Sloan.
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Instead of continuing to emphasize automation, a human-centric approach to the next generation of #AI technologies in #manufacturing could enhance workers' skills and boost productivity.

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What are the barriers, risks, and potential rewards to using #GenerativeAI for design and #manufacturing ?

Read the new working paper, co-authored by AusTangential, Sylvia Barmack, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and colleagues from MIT MechE.

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In this month's guest series, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson call for a digital ad tax to prompt business model change, e.g. subscriptions. More competition on the same business model is not the solution to fight extremism and misinformation. networklawreview.org/acemoglu-johns…

'The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising,' now available from Network Law Review.

Digital ad-based ecosystems do not encourage innovation that helps citizens. We should enact a flat tax on digital ads at a high rate above some low threshold of revenues. networklawreview.org/acemoglu-johns…

🆕 Join us this summer for the Stone Centre Symposium 2024!

Hear from a stellar line-up of speakers about the evolution of wealth inequality – with perspectives from the humanities and the social sciences!

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'AI could feasibly push automation even further. But it could also reshuffle opportunity in a different direction.' Read more from Eduardo Porter in Washington Post Opinions, citing research by Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson.
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This column examines movements in the prices #Russia has received for its #oil and argues that #Europe and the #US should step up their enforcement of the price cap on Russian oil and refined products.
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