Daron Acemoglu was quoted in the MIT Technology Review.

“‘AI agents right now are being marketed as things that can replace humans, and I think that’s just a losing proposition,’ says Daron Acemoglu, an economist at MIT who won the Nobel Prize in 2024 and studies AI’s impact on the economy. ‘They should instead be optimized so that they can improve human capabilities, which is not what they have [been] at the moment.'”