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

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We provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary overview of generative AI’s potential impacts on (mis)information and three information-intensive domains: work, education, and healthcare.

Our goal is to highlight how generative AI could worsen…

Since its release in May 2023, Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson has been published in 12 languages (with more to come), featured on 18 booklists, and nominated for 3 awards.

Learn more: shapingwork.mit.edu/power-and-prog…

``Successful performance of democratic regimes is critical for support for democracy.'

From Daron Acemoglu, Ajzenman, Aksoy, Fiszbein and Molina:

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History Already Tells Us the Future of AI by Daron Acemoglu Simon Johnson Project Syndicate prosyn.org/fwzmkmX MIT Economics MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative #thisismit #mit #mit shass #AIatMIT #economics #history

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…

We are delighted to welcome our Distinguished Research Fellow Daron Acemoglu who is in Oxford over the next few weeks. Sign up for his lecture on AI, work and democracy on May 17 oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/event/ethics-a…

We are delighted to be hosting a lecture by The Sanjaya Lall Memorial Fund Visiting Prof Daron Acemoglu (@DAcemogluMIT) later today @Corpus_Oxford! There will be an intro by Petra Schleiter and a Q&A hosted by Ben Ansell

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…

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.”

shapingwork.mit.edu/research/the-u…

Last week, Daron Acemoglu joined the @IMF #GlobalEcon debate on the macroeconomic implications of AI, in conversation with Kristalina Georgieva, ian bremmer, Omar Sultan AlOlama, and Richard Quest.

Watch the recording here: meetings.imf.org/en/2024/Spring…

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

What will be the depth and breadth of AI's impact on the nature of work?

On Thursday, April 25 at 3:00 PM EDT, Daron Acemoglu will discuss with Daniel Susskind, Russell Wald, and Anton Korinek, hosted by The Brookings Institution.

brookings.edu/events/work-in…

Why has productivity growth lagged since the 70s, despite the rapid pace of innovation in tech & electronics? Advances have been unbalanced across sectors & have created bottlenecks.

Chicago Booth's Christina Patterson, Daron Acemoglu, & David Autor

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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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At the #GlobalEcon debate, Daron Acemoglu said that to get the most out of AI we should use it to enhance human productivity rather than replace it. Watch the full debate here. meetings.imf.org/en/2024/Spring…