Siliconsciousness: MIT Nobel Prize-Winner Daron Acemoglu on AI, Growth, Jobs & Inequality

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Is artificial intelligence going to put us all out of work? There have been a range of predictions about the economic impact of AI, ranging from the modest to the fantastical. Nobel Prize-winning MIT professor Daron Acemoglu joins David Rothkopf to get to bottom of what we can really expect out of the AI revolution. This material is distributed by TRG Advisory Services, LLC on behalf of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the U.S.. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.6	Welcome to CILIC Consciousness, the DSR Network podcast focusing on the artificial intelligence revolution, politics and policy. Hello and welcome to CILA consciousness.
1:33.0	I'm your host, David Rothkopf.
1:34.5	This week, we're very fortunate to be joined by Daron Asimoglu.
1:38.8	He's an economist and the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1:47.3	Last year, he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, and he's widely recognized for his research on political economy, economic growth, inequality, and relevant to what we're talking about here, the impact of technology
2:03.0	on labor markets and in other ways.
2:06.7	Welcome, Darone.
2:08.0	Thank you, David.
2:08.8	It's great to be with you.
2:11.0	Very, very pleased you could join us.
2:15.1	You've been characterized by some people as being a bit of an AI skeptic.
2:19.7	It seems to me you're more of an AI realist, trying to look at actual data.
2:27.8	And so I'd like to start with a kind of question that's at a slight remove from some of the more substantive ones I'll get to in a second.
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