Licensing and competency standards prevent nurses from prescribing drugs or making emergency decisions without physician oversight, not because they are uniformly incompetent, but because complementary AI technology that would expand their role requires either much better-trained nurses or much more reliable AI models than currently exist.

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Speaker

Daron Acemoglu

Evidence Quote

Nurse complementary technology would expand what nurses do in those domains and no, you couldn't do that unless all of the nurses become even better trained than licensed practitioner nurses or the AI models get much better.

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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