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AI and Jobs: How to Make AI Work With Us, Not Against Us With Daron Acemoglu

Tech companies say that AI will lead to massive economic productivity gains. But as we know from the first digital revolution, that’s not what happened. Can we do better this time around?RECOMMENDED MEDIA<a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/daron-acemoglu/power-and-progress/9781541702530/?lens=publicaffairs">Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson</a> Professor Acemoglu co-authored a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world<a href="https://computing.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Pro-Worker-AI-Policy-Memo20.pdf">Can we Have Pro-Worker AI?</a> Professor Acemoglu co-authored this paper about redirecting AI development onto the human-complementary path<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OShxRPVbsF4">Rethinking Capitalism: In Conversation with Daron Acemoglu</a> The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development hosted Professor Acemoglu to examine how technology affects the distribution and growth of resources while being shaped by economic and social incentivesRECOMMENDED YUA EPISODES<a href="https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-three-rules-of-humane-tech">The Three Rules of Humane Tech</a><a href="https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-tech-we-need-for-21st-century-democracy-with-divya-siddarth">The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy</a><a href="https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/can-we-govern-ai">Can We Govern AI?</a><a href="https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/54-an-alternative-to-silicon-valley-unicorns">An Alternative to Silicon Valley Unicorns</a>Your Undivided Attention is produced by the <a href="https://www.humanetech.com/">Center for Humane Technology</a>. Follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/humanetech_">@HumaneTech_</a>

In our podcast, Your Undivided Attention, co-hosts Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin and Daniel Barcay explore the unprecedented power of emerging technologies: how they fit into our lives, and how they fit into a humane future.

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