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Over 200 Economists and Nobel Laureates Sign 'We Must Act Now' Letter Warning of Large-Scale AI Job Displacement
More than 200 top economists, computer scientists and tech executives — including over a dozen Nobel Prize winners, Stanford's Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT's David Autor and ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt — signed an 88-word open letter titled 'We Must Act Now.' It warns AI could become 'radically more powerful' within a decade, drive a transformation 'larger than the Industrial Revolution' but far faster, and bring 'large-scale job displacement' unless leaders build guardrails and institutions now.
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