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Is AI going to displace human labor, and what's the consequence if it does? Daron Acemoglu, MIT Institute Professor and 2024 Nobel laureate, makes the case in this 37-min interview: AI is being pushed to replace workers rather than augment them, productivity gains aren't showing up in firms adopting it, the bubble looks real and macro-fragile, and getting AI's direction wrong may shape liberal democracy's future. https://benjaminhan.net/posts/20260524-acemoglu-great-displacement/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #AI #LLMs #Economics #Jobs #FutureOfWork #Society #Policy