Acemoglu predicts AI replaces only 5% of jobs in a decade — and gets publicly pushed back
LesaunH · x · 2026-10-07
Mustafa Suleyman shared Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu's prediction from MAI's new magazine The Humanist Review: AI will replace only 5% of jobs in 10 years, arguing we should build AI that makes people better at work rather than replaces them. A user publicly challenged the prediction as based on faulty two-year-old premises and asked Suleyman to also share Bill Gates's opposing take on the Ezra Klein podcast.
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