Acemoglu paper: Automation may undermine democracy via income shifts
pmddomingos · x · 2026-08-27
A new paper by Daron Acemoglu et al. examines how automation (think AI) may ultimately undermine democracy. As automation shifts income from workers to capital, containing the risk of revolt requires ever more redistribution, making repression more attractive to the capitalist state. This finding affirms The Economist's stance.
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