Individual decision-making by engineers and scientists within tech corporations significantly determines the direction of AI research; if hundreds of thousands of these workers decided to shift focus from automation and AGI to developing pro-worker, pro-human, decentralized technologies, that would be the research direction pursued.
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Daron AcemogluEvidence Quote
“Hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps more, who work as engineers and scientists in these corporations, they determine the direction of research. If they decided next year that they want to work not on automation and AGI, but developing more pro-worker, pro-human technologies... that's what we would get.”
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:05:02 PM
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