Dave5

It was never civilization destroying… and they knew it. They pumped that angle because regulatory capture was the only moat they could really create.

When asked if generative AI would usher in revolutionary economic changes, Acemoglu had a straightforward answer.

“No. No. Definitely not,” Acemoglu told NPR. “I mean, unless you count a lot of companies over-investing in generative AI and then regretting it, a revolutionary change.”

https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-economist-blasts-ai-hype-too-dumb-jobs