Daedalus_Sp22_19_Brynjolfsson

2024

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This paper examines how an excessive societal focus on human-like artificial intelligence and labor automation risks concentrating economic and political power—a trap that can be avoided by prioritizing human augmentation.
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* Analyzes the economic differences between technologies that automate human labor versus those that augment it.
* Identifies misaligned incentives among technologists, business leaders, and policy-makers that currently favor automation over augmentation.
* Argues that shifting focus toward human-machine collaboration and revising tax and training policies can foster shared prosperity.
3) Tags: artificial intelligence, automation, augmentation, economics, policy

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