Daron Acemoglu

Nobel Prize-winning professor, MIT

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“Because the number of people they're employing in these positions is small relative to the number of people who will be replaced. I mean, that's the whole point of automation.”
Humans are teaching AI how to do their jobs | 60 Minutes60 Minutes (CBS News), October 5, 2026. Acemoglu answers why AI-training work will not absorb the people AI displaces.
“It should. And it should move us into thinking about what we can do because there is a lot we can do. Because the future is so uncertain, because the future is so much subject to our choice and agency, it is all the more important that we have this discussion.”
Humans are teaching AI how to do their jobs | 60 Minutes60 Minutes (CBS News), October 5, 2026. Closing answer, after Wertheim asks whether fears for the stability of society should scare us.

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    Humans are teaching AI how to do their jobs | 60 Minutes

    In a 13-minute 60 Minutes segment, Jon Wertheim asks whether AI will take jobs or change them. CBS profiles Mercor, which pays experts to train AI models, and a law firm's AI partner personas. Mercor's CEO and a lawyer expect work to evolve; Clara Shih and economist Daron Acemoglu warn of large job losses.