More than 200 economists and AI researchers say labor institutions cannot wait.
An open letter organized by Stanford's digital economy lab and signed by more than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, calls for incentives, guardrails, and institutions that make AI complement people and broadly share gains.
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An open letter organized by Stanford's digital economy lab and signed by more than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, calls for incentives, guardrails, and institutions that make AI complement people and broadly share gains.
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The four-sentence letter is advocacy based on possible future transformation, not evidence that mass displacement has occurred. Signatories include technology-company executives with their own policy interests.
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