This Monday the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prestigious prize Nobel Prize in Economics To Daron Acemoglu, simon johnson And James A. RobinsonThree economists whose studies have determined “how institutions affect prosperity.”
Acemoglu, a professor of economic policy at MIT, has a global reputation in fields such as DevelopmentThe inequality labor effect of or technologyOn this last point, Turkish-American academics have been critical of the promises artificial intelligenceespecially call Generative AIthe one who likes chatgptProgrammed to create all types of content.
“It’ll prove to be just one automation The kind of mediocrity that displaces workers but results in no major improvements Productivity“He prophesied in a Article Published in the special magazine last February wiredAlthough he highlighted that Generative AI is an “impressive” technology and that it “offers huge opportunities for improving productivity”, he also condemned hyperbole promoted by industry veterans such as OpenAI, Microsoft one of the two Google: “The hype has been far ahead of reality.”
Ironically, Acemoglu has received Nobel Five days after the theoretical computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton Won an award in the field of physics for illuminating the models that underlie ayeFormer Google executive Hinton believes this technology can overcome human intelligence and “Take over everything,” an apocalyptic idea that Acemoglu considers an “illusion.” For Turkish academics, the bigger danger of AI is not that it will become terminatorBut its “uncontrolled deployment” poses “more mundane” risks. employmentinequality and democracy“. Without going any further, the errors that spread Application like chatgpt or use it for disinformation and this To publicize,
“AI hype has been far ahead of reality”
Automation and inequality
Already in 2022, Acemoglu published a study In which he said that there is a change of between 50% to 70% Salary Due to automation in America between 1980 and 2020, robotic and this algorithm Which replaces the work done by humans. This phenomenon allowed increased productivity, but it primarily harmed workers who performed manual tasks in manufacturing industries.
On the other hand, the research is also signed by the professor. Pascual Restrepopoints out that technologies that improve the production of skilled labor “cause no displacement and always increase the wages of unskilled workers.” Thus, its impact on inequality is “unclear”.
