What if the AI boosters are wrong?
A skeptical paper by Daron Acemoglu, a labor economist at MIT, has sparked a heated debate over whether artificial intelligence will increase productivity.
A skeptical paper by Daron Acemoglu, a labor economist at MIT, has sparked a heated debate over whether artificial intelligence will increase productivity.
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