{"id":59589,"date":"2026-10-31T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=59589"},"modified":"2026-10-31T10:29:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:29:55","slug":"%e8%af%ba%e5%a5%96%e5%be%97%e4%b8%bb-acemoglu%ef%bc%9aai-%e5%ba%94%e5%b8%ae%e5%8a%a9%e5%8a%b3%e5%8a%a8%e8%80%85%ef%bc%8c%e5%88%ab%e5%8f%aa%e7%9b%af%e7%9d%80-agi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/59589.html","title":{"rendered":"Acemoglu: AI should help workers, not just AGI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-header\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On October 31st, the Nobel laureate in economics, Professor MIT Daron Acemoglu, in his latest interview with Bloomberg, stated that he had underestimated it<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd%e4%bd%93\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [intelligent body]]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [AI]]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI<\/a> THE SPEED OF DEVELOPMENT, BUT THE USE OF CHAT ROBOTS IN PERSONAL LIFE, AND AI INTO THE PRODUCTION PROCESS, IS STILL TWO THINGS TO DISTINGUISH\u3002<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59590\" title=\"72b19a89j00tnr2wt00yfd000ukm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/72b19a89j00tnr2wt00yfd000u000k0m.jpg\" alt=\"72b19a89j00tnr2wt00yfd000ukm\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He's against the use of universal artificial intelligence<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/agi\" title=\"_OTHER ORGANISER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AGI<\/a>SET AS THE ONLY DIRECTION FOR DEVELOPMENT, BELIEVING THAT OVER-SATISFACTION TO THIS GOAL WOULD LEAVE OTHER USES UNEXPLORED. HE SUGGESTED THAT IF MORE AI PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO MOVE TOWARDS THE GOALS OF INCREASING THE PRODUCTIVITY OF WORKERS AND INCREASING CITIZEN AUTONOMY, TECHNOLOGY WOULD MOVE IN THOSE DIRECTIONS; HE AGREED THAT CHINA WAS MORE ACTIVE THAN THE UNITED STATES IN TRYING TO INTEGRATE AI INTO THE PRODUCTION PROCESS\u3002<\/p>\n<p>Turning to automated incentives, Acemoglu advocated reducing the tax gap between capital and labour income and reducing the additional incentives for enterprises to replace labour with capital. At the same time, he acknowledged that changes in tax burden could lead to real concerns, such as the emigration of enterprises, and that specific policies needed to be negotiated\u3002<\/p>\n<p>WITH REGARD TO THE ASSERTION THAT \"AI WILL CHANGE LIFE, BUT SHOULD ALLOW A SMALL NUMBER OF TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURS TO DETERMINE THEIR DIRECTION\", HE ARGUED THAT THE DEEPER THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY, THE MORE THE PUBLIC HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN SHAPING ITS DEVELOPMENT\u3002<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 31st, the Nobel laureate in economics, Professor MIT Daron Acemoglu, stated in a recent interview with Bloomberg that he had underestimated the growth of smart AI, but the use of chat robots in personal life, and AI, to enter the production process, remained two things to distinguish. He rejected the idea of setting the General Artificial Intelligence (AGI) as the only direction in which to develop, arguing that being overly committed to that goal would not allow other uses to be fully explored. He suggested that if more AI people were able to move towards the goals of increasing the productivity of workers and increasing citizen autonomy, technology would move in those directions; he agreed that China was more active than the United States in trying to integrate AI into the production process. When it comes to automation incentives, Acemoglu advocates scaling down<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[151,411,1355],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-59589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-agi","tag-ai","tag-1355"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59589"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=59589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}