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Marketplace All-in-One

AI's role in human productivity and prosperity

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Simon Johnson, Nobel-winning economist, joined Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino to explain his current thinking about AI and inequality. He says the tech could bring productivity gains, but they might not benefit everyone.

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0:00.0

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1:00.9

A Nobel winning economist has concerns about AI.

1:06.3

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. A new MIT Center launched this month aims to dig deeper into how AI could affect workers.

1:27.4

The Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping

1:29.7

the Future of Work will further the study of economists like Simon Johnson and Duran Asimaglu,

1:35.5

who are co-directors of the Center. They also won the Nobel Prize in Economics last year,

1:40.8

for, among other things, their work on how technological innovation can increase or decrease

1:46.3

inequality. They co-authored the 2023 book Power and Progress, Our 1,000-year struggle over

1:52.7

technology and prosperity. Simon Johnson joined us to explain his current thinking about AI. He

1:59.3

says the tech could bring productivity gains, but they might not

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