NBER releases new book 'The Economics of Transformative AI', backed by Erik Brynjolfsson
daveholtz · x · 2026-09-06
NBER has released a new volume, The Economics of Transformative AI, collecting contributions that grapple with the big economic questions raised by transformative AI. Economist Erik Brynjolfsson called AI "the most important technology of our era" and praised the insights gathered in the book, which covers AI's impact on labor, productivity, and economic structure.
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