Nobel Laureate Acemoglu: How We Use AI Will Decide Prosperity or Deeper Inequality
GregCook2011 · x · 2026-10-30
Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu joins the Radio Davos podcast (40 min) to discuss AI and inequality. His core argument: how we develop and use AI will either strengthen shared prosperity or deepen inequality, and today's choices could even put democracy under greater strain.
Drawing on his new book What Happened to Liberal Democracy?, he covers:
- The forces weakening community and prosperity, and the widening divide between college-educated and non-college-educated workers;
- His concept of "pro-worker AI" — models that expand human capabilities rather than just replace them — and its potential impact on prosperity and economies;
- The institutional choices that will matter most, and the key economic metric to watch in the years ahead.
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