The Manila Times on MSNOpinion

The pope should have gone further on AI

BOSTON, Massachusetts — Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how we communicate, access information and work, how income ...
WBUR

Economist Daron Acemoglu on why strong, trusted institutions bring economic and political stability

Daron Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2024 Nobel Laureate in economics. He has researched how successful nations rely on strong, reliable institutions. He ...
CNN

Nobel Prize in economics awarded to trio for explaining why some nations are rich and others poor

Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and others remain poor. Daron Acemoglu, Simon ...
Yahoo Finance

AI Can Only Do 5% of Jobs, Says MIT Economist Who Fears Crash

(Bloomberg) -- Daron Acemoglu wants to make clear right away that he has nothing against artificial intelligence. He gets the potential. “I’m not an AI pessimist,” he declares seconds into an ...
The Boston Globe

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, both MIT professors, win Nobel Prize

Born to Armenian parents in a middle-class family in Turkey in the late 1960s, Daron Acemoglu grew up during a tense period of political unrest and economic crises, and he would speculate why Turkey’s ...
Financial Post

AI can benefit workers, not just 'the takers,' says famed economist Daron Acemoglu

Lunch doesn’t usually happen at 11 a.m., but Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) economics professor Daron Acemoglu is an efficient man. We are meeting early and close to his office in ...
The Financial Times

Economist Daron Acemoglu: ‘When mistakes involve powerful technologies, you’re going to have trouble’

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Lunch doesn’t usually happen at 11am, but MIT economics professor Daron Acemoglu is an efficient man. We are meeting ...
American Enterprise Institute

Daron Acemoglu: Too Much Faith in Government, Too Little in Markets (And AI)

MIT economist and freshly minted Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu (with whom I podcasted in 2017) has outlined three emerging “epochal” challenges for the American economy. If you tried to guess them, ...