Over 200 economists, researchers, and industry leaders signed an urgent letter warning that AI could radically transform the economy.
Sign up to see the future, todaywarning that AI could radically transform the economy at an unprecedented pace and scale — and that policymakers and governments need to move to mitigate the fallout.
Titled “We Must Act Now,” the letter is brief. It predicts that “AI may become radically more powerful over the next ten years,” and that acceleration in the tech’s capabilities “could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. ” While possible risks include “large-scale job displacement,” there may also be “opportunities,” the letter suggests, citing “major gains in living standards.
” But neither the risks nor the benefits of AI can be harnessed if leaders across policy, government, and industry don’t act quickly to understand the scale of AI’s potential impact on the workforce.
“Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI,” the letter declares, “and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society. ” Signees include Nobel-winning Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, New York University economist and Nobel winner Michael Spence, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, former OpenAIThat said, despite the many big names who signed on, the letter doesn’t actually propose any solutions to the issues it raises.
It’s more of a general awareness campaign about the scale of the problem society is facing.noted, perhaps the most notable thing about the letter is the intellectual breadth among signees, from AI optimists who have long predicted radical change, to“There’s been a notable change in the profession,” Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson, who helped organize the statement, told the.
“I still see a big gap there, a big mismatch, and I’m kind of worried that we’re not going to be ready for the tsunami that’s coming. ” “If you look at what robots did in the manufacturing sector, if AI does something equivalent in a more compressed time period, that would be really disruptive, really costly for people’s livelihood,” added Acemoglu, a noted skeptic.
We’re already seeing some major shifts in the workforce, regardless of whether AI is actually replacing jobs or being used as a scapegoat. It’s a difficult time to be anfound that AI may be pushing older workers out of jobs.
Some reports, meanwhile, have even contended that AI has had But before AI has the chance to wreak havoc in the job market — should that future come to pass — the experts are clear: it’s not the time to be caught on our back foot.
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