OpenAI logo on a cell phone in front of an image generated by DALL·E, ChatGPT's image creation tool. Michael Dwyer/AP More than 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel Prize winners and researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, have called on governments and technology leaders to urgently create policies and institutions to address the economic impact of artificial intelligence. ?? Do you have any reporting suggestions? Send it to g1 They released the jointly signed statement this Monday (13), warning that AI could drive an economic transformation greater than the Industrial Revolution, but with a “much shorter” deadline, which raises questions for workers, companies and public institutions. The statement calls for further research into the economic impacts of AI and to begin crafting the policies and institutions necessary to ensure the technology benefits society and to address risks such as large-scale job losses.
AI could transform the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution, experts warn
OpenAI logo on a cell phone in front of an image generated by DALL·E, ChatGPT's image creation tool. Michael Dwyer/AP More than 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel Prize winners and researchers from...
"Steam, electricity and computers gave societies decades to adapt. AI may only give us a few years," said Anton Korinek, a professor at the University of Virginia. “We cannot improvise our strategy and our institutions in the midst of transformation; waiting for certainty means arriving too late,” he added. Korinek, who joined Anthropic's economic research team in March, organized the initiative with fellow economists Erik Brynjolfsson, Ajay Agrawal, and Tom Cunningham. Signatories include OpenAI's chief financial officer, Sarah Friar; Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean; Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark; and members of the economic research team at the company that created the Claude chatbot. Nobel Prize winners Michael Spence, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, among others, also signed the declaration.
