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The Great Displacement: Will AI Take Your Job? With Dave Briggs and Daron Acemoglu
Event Details
Longtime national broadcaster Dave Briggs returns to The Westport Library for another deep dive into the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence. This time, he’ll be joined by Daron Acemoglu, one of the world’s leading economists and a renowned voice on technology’s impact on the labor market. Together they'll discuss a topic at the forefront of the national conversation: job displacement.
Why You Should Come
Is Anthropic founder Dario Amodei correct in his assumption that 50% entry level white collar jobs will be eliminated, and unemployment could spike to as high as 20% in the next five years? Current insights based on factual evidence may surprise you and assuage valid concerns.
About the Speakers
Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also affiliated with the National Bureau Economic Research, and the Center for Economic Policy Research.
In 2024, Acemoglu received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, joint with Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
He is the author of six books: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (with James A. Robinson), Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (with James A. Robinson), Principles of Economics (with David Laibson and John List), The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (with James A. Robinson), and Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (with Simon Johnson).
Dave Briggs is a longtime national broadcaster at CNN, NBC Sports, Fox News and Turner Sports. He is also vice president for business development at Cann Social Tonic. He’s been a Westport resident since 2008 and is very involved in town activities — as a Westport Library board member, a Fashionably Westport MC, and more.
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