David Autor

We should be preparing for that.

The third thing I would say is so much of the discussion of AI is catastrophizing.

It's just focused on the worst case scenario.

And those who are not focused on the worst case scenario, by the way, are doing the opposite, which is like, it's going to be utopia.

And both of those perspectives are very distortionary.

We should be optimistic and pessimistic simultaneously.

We should recognize there's going to be real transition costs, and we're going to make some terrible mistakes.

Simultaneously, there's incredible opportunity that we've never had.

We've never had tools that could do things like this, and they're going to be so important.

And that's something to focus on because there's constructive opportunity there.

Pleasure to be here.