Will AI Help Democracy—or Dictators? - Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu with Nicholas Thompson

The number of jobs, my estimates, that workers were displaced from because of robotics was less than 5%. That's an earthquake.

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1. 01One question that I've been trying to interrogate in this podcast is why modern technology, which seemed so promising as a force to foster democracy, has turned out mainly to empow
2. 02He sees that continuing today with the ways we're building and deploying AI
3. 03So tell me in the context of that story, how worried are you about where liberal democracy is right now?