MIT economist: AI price collapse undercuts pro-worker AI arguments as cheap intelligence arrives within 2 years
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-24
MIT economist Andrey Fradkin — fresh off publishing a paper he jokes beat Epoch to the punch — says the rapid fall in AI prices is why he's skeptical of "pro-worker AI" arguments for redirecting innovation.
His core argument: Astra/Fable+ level intelligence will be cheap and ubiquitous within 2 years. It will complement some tasks and substitute for others, so labor-market implications are non-trivial. But he questions how a non-existent pro-worker AI alternative could ever compete with cheap, general intelligence.
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