PARIS — Should our future by decided by the bosses of big tech firms? For Nobel economics prize winner Simon Johnson, giving too much power to a handful of billionaires will come at the expense of public interest.
The British-American economist who teaches at MIT also stressed that the development of artificial intelligence should benefit less qualified workers.Automation and its impact upon jobs is one of Johnson 's favorite elements in the relationship between democracy and economic prosperity, the subject which won him the Nobel alongside Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu and British-American James Robinson.AFP spoke with Johnson by telephone and the interview has been edited for length.
Who profits from AI in that case? Better-educated workers?Let's be entirely honest... AI is mostly beneficial for the big tech companies. In any moment like this, the people who envisage technology, the vision that shapes technology is absolutely decisive. And these people, of course, at the moment are regarded as the heroes.
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