• Rethinking the AI boom, with Daron Acemoğlu

  • Sep 2 2024
  • Length: 31 mins
  • Podcast

Rethinking the AI boom, with Daron Acemoğlu

  • Summary

  • Daron Acemoğlu is an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. Today on the show, he and Soumaya discuss artificial intelligence and productivity growth, querying how and why AI will change the trajectory of the world economy, and how the workers and the middle class will be affected along the way. It’s a wide-ranging conversation about the past and the future of technology, and what it means for the world’s wellbeing.


    Soumaya Keynes writes a column each week for the Financial Times. You can find it here


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    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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