Erik Brynjolfsson

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Hard Fork · The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

Now, fleshing out exactly how to do that is a bigger question, but at least if we could get a couple hundred economists and a lot of Nobel Prize winners and other AI researchers around the world to agree on that direction, that's a good start.

Well, it's certainly true.

There's lots of things going on in the economy.

AI is not the only thing.

It's one of the most important and increasingly the most important thing.

We wrote this paper, Canaries in the Coal Mine, that you may be familiar with.

We're going to have a new version of it out in a few days, probably in time for your airing this podcast, where we look at some of the alternatives as well.

We look at what's going on with interest rates.

We look at remote work.

We look at the tech overhiring.

We look at changes in education.

All of those are important, and we find that all of them make a difference.

But even when you put them in individually or all at the same time into these regressions to try to parse out what's happening, AI continues to be an important factor.

And it's not just destroying jobs.

AI is also creating jobs, as a lot of people will tell you.

And it's the job of us, people like me, like economists, to try to sort that out and see which parts are important as early as possible and as fine grained as possible.

Just because it's not easy doesn't mean we shouldn't try to sort it out.

No, not at all.

So I've written many papers on this idea of the productivity J curve and on the way that AI complements changes.

You may have heard, I'll retell the story about how when electricity was first introduced, it took about 20 to 30 years before

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