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Technological Progress in History: Who Benefits?
About the event
Discussing *Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity*, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (published in 2023).
From The Guardian: “One of the most important books of the year. In our time, the next challenge is artificial intelligence. The threat is surrendering control over every dimension of our lives to machines. Either AI can be deployed usefully to serve humanity or become, as it is in China, a super-Orwellian Big Brother and author of a stream of fake-but-credible news. Technologies must be shaped to serve us. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson explain how vital it is to develop a counter-narrative for how technology — ultimately the source of 85 percent of new wealth — can be used for human betterment.”
Daron Acemoglu, an Institute Professor at MIT, is the author (with James Robinson) of *Why Nations Fail* and *The Narrow Corridor*.
Simon Johnson, Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT’s Sloan School, is the author (with Jonathan Gruber) of *Jump-Starting America* and (with James Kwak) of *13 Bankers*.
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, along with James Robinson, were the winners of the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. “Societies with a poor rule of law and institutions that exploit the population do not generate growth or change for the better,” the Swedish Royal Academy stated in the Nobel citation. “The laureates’ research helps us understand why.”
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