AI Must Enlarge the Economy, Not Divide It¶
CAMBRIDGE/PARIS—More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, have signed theWe Must Act Nowstatement, warning that AI could reshape the global economy on a scale larger than the Industrial Revolution—and far more quickly. We were among the signatories, but recognizing the stakes does not settle the question of how AI should be developed. One of the statement’s central claims is that AI should be steered towardcomplementinghumans rather than imitating them. That distinction is more consequential than it may seem.