Well-designed AI tools could significantly improve what electricians, nurses, educators, journalists, and academics can do by providing reliable, domain-specific information (e.g., helping an electrician diagnose unexpected equipment behavior by accessing expertise equivalent to decades of experience), but this requires specialized training on domain-specific data and best-practice use cases rather than general-purpose large language models.

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Daron Acemoglu

Evidence Quote

If you're an electrician and you encounter an equipment that is behaving in a way that you haven't seen before... if you have the right AI tool that can immediately and reliably give you information... we can significantly improve what electricians, what nurses, what educators, what journalists, what academics could do using AI.

Source

AI Is Not Improving Productivity: Nobel Laureate Daron AcemogluMIT Sloan Management Review
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:05:02 PM

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