Economist Brynjolfsson: AI Perfectly Imitating Humans Drives Down Wages
erikbryn · x · 2026-08-23
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson introduces the "Turing Trap," warning that when AI perfectly imitates human skills and becomes a substitute, it drives down wages. He argues AI should be built to augment human value rather than just copy us, exploring the economic difference between technological imitation and complementarity.
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