--- title: The Economist Breaking Ranks to Sound the Alarm on AI description: Unlike most top economists, Anton Korinek believes policymakers need to take AI’s disruptive potential more seriously. canonical: https://time.com/6966882/economist-ai-transformation-society-anton-korinek/ author: Will Henshall article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-04-16T15:47:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:45:37.643Z article:section: Business og:title: The Economist Breaking Ranks to Warn of Threats From AI og:description: Unlike most top economists, Anton Korinek believes policymakers need to take AI’s disruptive potential more seriously. og:url: https://time.com/6966882/economist-ai-transformation-society-anton-korinek/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88b70f4096a1941/698a553686f68e17b26f4f7f/AI-economy-inequality-alert.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: AI-economy-inequality-alert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Economist Breaking Ranks to Warn of Threats From AI twitter:description: Unlike most top economists, Anton Korinek believes policymakers need to take AI’s disruptive potential more seriously. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88b70f4096a1941/698a553686f68e17b26f4f7f/AI-economy-inequality-alert.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Economist Breaking Ranks to Warn of AI’s Transformative Power > Sponsored content. 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Hilke Schellmann, author of "The Algorithm," argues that AI-based tools aren't ready for use in the hiring process. Yet, many large American companies already rely upon them._  by [Will Henshall](https://time.com/author/will-henshall/)  ## Will Henshall Apr 16, 2024 3:47 PM UTC  Illustration by Lon Tweeten for TIME  by [Will Henshall](https://time.com/author/will-henshall/)  ## Will Henshall Apr 16, 2024 3:47 PM UTC Technologists tend to predict that the economic impacts of their creations will be unprecedented—and this is especially true when it comes to artificial intelligence. Last year, Elon Musk [predicted](https://time.com/6331056/rishi-sunak-elon-musk-ai/) that continued advances in AI would render human labor obsolete. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has [written](https://moores.samaltman.com/) that AI will inevitably continue the shift in economic power from labor to capital and create “phenomenal wealth.” Jensen Huang, CEO of semiconductor design firm Nvidia, has [compared](https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/19/nvidia-ai-factory-gtc-2024/?guccounter=1&guce%5Freferrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce%5Freferrer%5Fsig=AQAAAM7B-FW-mK2vm7GC37ZZRTrC2QkVNvBWVq8aZOsez9U4UtpUf1MQMKrRxPrw3yIJPA7FcmK2EArC3fUdjQ36GZJHn7Q2UZoZDiKqzfkI%5Fy2aeFrLVQlMgH7n1hmCA4k6qWKBWhyjxpS8zXL1qwU0J1p7CXHrIDW-B4UNXz2gEnAo) AI’s development and deployment to a “new industrial revolution.” But while the technologists are bullish on the economic impacts of AI, members of that other technocratic priesthood with profound influence over public life—the economists—are not. Even if technologists create the powerful AI systems that they claim they soon will, the economic impacts of those systems are likely to be underwhelming, say many economists. [According](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-16/ai-won-t-supercharge-the-us-economy) to Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University, AI will “boost the annual US growth rate by one-quarter to one-half of a percentage point.” Economics Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman has [argued](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/opinion/ai-chatgpt-jobs-economy.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.j00.oiYM.w2budAQdLvee&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=c) that “history suggests that large economic effects from A.I. will take longer to materialize than many people currently seem to expect.” David Autor, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has [written](https://www.noemamag.com/how-ai-could-help-rebuild-the-middle-class/) that the “industrialized world is awash in jobs, and it’s going to stay that way.” As an economics professor at the University of Virginia with affiliations to some of the profession’s most reputable institutions, Anton Korinek is a certified member of the priesthood. The 46-year-old, however, has broken rank. He uses the methods of his discipline to model what would happen if AI developed as many technologists say it might—which is to say that AI systems are likely to outperform humans at any task by the end of the decade. In the sterile lexicon of academic economics, he paints an alarming picture of a near future in which humans cease to play a role in the economy, and inequality soars. If “the complexity of tasks that humans can perform is bounded and full automation is reached, then wages collapse,” write Korinek and one of his Ph.D. students, Donghyun Suh, in a recent [paper](https://www.nber.org/system/files/working%5Fpapers/w32255/w32255.pdf). In other words, if there's a limit to how complex the tasks humans can do are, and machines become advanced enough to fully automate all those tasks, then wages could drastically fall as human labor is no longer needed, leaving anyone who doesn’t share in the resources that accrue to AI systems and their owners to starve. Economists have spent the last 200 years explaining to the uninitiated that the lump of labor fallacy—the idea that there is a fixed number of jobs and automation of any of those jobs will create permanent unemployment—is wrong, says Korinek. “In some ways, that’s our professional baggage,” he says. “We've spent so much time fighting a false narrative, that it's difficult to pivot when the facts really do change, and see that this situation may indeed be different.” “The scariest part about it is that the technological predictions that I use as inputs are what people like Sam Altman or \[Anthropic CEO\] Dario Amodei are freely preaching in public everywhere,” says Korinek. “I'm not a technology expert, and I don't have any special insight or knowledge to these issues. I'm just taking what they're saying seriously and asking: what would it actually mean for the economy, and for jobs, and for wages? It would be completely disruptive.” --- Korinek’s father, a primary care physician, instilled in him a passion for understanding the brain. As a teen in Austria, Korinek became fascinated with neuroscience and learnt to program. At college, he took a course on neural networks—the brain-inspired AI systems that have since become the most popular and powerful in the industry. “It was intriguing, but at the same time, boring, because the technology just wasn't very powerful using the tools that we had back then,” he recalls. As Korinek was finishing college in the late 1990s, the Asian financial crisis hit. The 1997 crash, precipitated by a foreign exchange crisis in Thailand, followed many other episodes of acute financial distress in emerging markets. Korinek decided to do a Ph.D. on financial crises and how to prevent them. Fortunately for him—although less fortunately for everyone else—the global financial crisis struck in 2008, a year after he finished his thesis. His expertise was in demand, and his career took off. As an academic economist, he watched from the sidelines as AI researchers made breakthrough after breakthrough; scanning newspapers, listening to radio programs, and reading books on AI. In the early 2010s, as AI systems began to outdo humans at tasks such as image recognition, he began to believe that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the term used to describe a yet to be built AI system that could do any task a human could—might be developed alarmingly soon. But it took the birth of his first child in 2015 to get him off the sidelines. “There is really something happening, and it's happening faster than I thought in the 1990s,” he recalls thinking. “This is really going to be relevant for my daughter's life path.” **Read More:** [_4 Charts That Show Why AI Progress Is Unlikely to Slow Down_](https://time.com/6300942/ai-progress-charts/) Using the methods of economics, Korinek has sought to understand how future AI systems might affect economic growth, wages, and employment, how the inequality created by AI could imperil democracy, and how policymakers should respond to economic issues posed by AI. For years, working on the economics of AGI was a fringe pursuit. Economics Ph.D. students would tell Korinek that they would like to work on the questions he was beginning to study, but they felt they needed to stick to more mainstream topics if they wanted to get a job. Despite having been awarded tenure in 2018 and thus being insulated from the pressures of the academic job market, Korinek felt discouraged at times. “Researchers are still also social creatures,” he says. “If you only face skepticism towards your work, it makes it much, much harder to push forward a research agenda, because you start questioning yourself.” Up until OpenAI released the wildly popular chatbot, ChatGPT, in November 2022, Korinek says research on the economics of AGI was a fringe pursuit. Now, it’s “on an exponential growth path,” says Korinek. Many economists still, quite reasonably, dismiss the possibility of AGI being developed in the coming decades. Skeptics point to the many ways in which current systems fall short of human abilities, the potential roadblocks to continued AI progress such as a shortfall in data to train larger models, and the history of technologists making overconfident predictions. A [paper](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract%5Fid=4709699) published in February by economists in Portugal and Germany sets aside AGI as “science fiction,” and thus argues that AI is unlikely to cause explosive economic growth. **Read More:** [_When Might AI Outsmart Us? It Depends Who You Ask_](https://time.com/6556168/when-ai-outsmart-humans/) “Two years ago, that was absolutely commonplace—that was the median reaction,” says Korinek. But more people are starting to entertain the possibility of AGI being developed, and those who continue to dismiss the possibility are providing solid arguments for their position rather than dismissing it out of hand. “People are, in other words, engaging very seriously in the debate,” he says approvingly. Other economists are open to the possibility of AGI being developed in the foreseeable future, but argue that this still wouldn’t precipitate a collapse in employment. Often, they put the disagreement with those who do think the development of AGI might cause these things down to the other side’s economic illiteracy. For example, in March, economist Noah Smith argued in a [blog post](https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/plentiful-high-paying-jobs-in-the) that was picked up by the [New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/ai-jobs-comparative-advantage.html) that well-paid jobs will be plentiful, even after AI can outperform humans at any task. This is, Smith forbearingly explains, because AI systems and humans can each specialize in the tasks where their relative advantage is greatest—an economic idea known as comparative advantage—and then trade with each other. When “most people hear the term “comparative advantage” for the first time, they immediately think of the wrong thing,” writes Smith. But Korinek is hardly economically illiterate. “I claim to say I do understand comparative advantage,” he says with a grin. Korinkek’s models, which account for comparative advantage, still don’t paint an optimistic picture for humans in a world where AI systems can do any task a human can. “The theory of comparative advantage tells us that there is scope for gains from trade,” says Korinek. “But the big problem is, it does not tell us that the terms of that trade will be sufficient for humans to make a decent living, or even for humans to cover their subsistence cost.” Later in his blog post, Smith does go on to say that government intervention, in the form of a tax on AI or by setting limits on the amount of energy AI systems can use, could be required to ensure that humans can earn enough to survive if AI can outperform them at any task. But while Smith is confident that governments will take these steps if they prove necessary, Korinek is less sure. “The economists are slowly starting to take the potential job disruption from AI more seriously,” he says. “Policymakers are not quite there yet—that’s my concern. I'm nervous about this, because we may not have all that much time.” Korinek does not share the certitude with which many technologists predict the imminent development of AGI. But given the potential implications of such a technology, society must prepare, he says. “It may take many more decades until we come even close to replicating the things that the human brain does,” he says. “But I think there's also a sufficiently high chance that it really won't take that long and this is going to happen really quickly, and that it will turn our society upside down.” ### More From TIME The Economist Breaking Ranks to Sound the Alarm on AI ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6966882/economist-ai-transformation-society-anton-korinek/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6966882/economist-ai-transformation-society-anton-korinek/"},"headline":"The Economist Breaking Ranks to Warn of AI’s Transformative Power","datePublished":"2024-04-16T15:47:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:45:37.643Z","description":"Unlike most top economists, Anton Korinek believes policymakers need to take AI’s disruptive potential more seriously.","url":"https://time.com/6966882/economist-ai-transformation-society-anton-korinek/","keywords":["Tech","AI"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88b70f4096a1941/698a553686f68e17b26f4f7f/AI-economy-inequality-alert.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Will Henshall","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/will-henshall/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88b70f4096a1941/698a553686f68e17b26f4f7f/AI-economy-inequality-alert.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"AI-economy-inequality-alert","caption":"","creditText":"Illustration by Lon Tweeten for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6966882/economist-ai-transformation-society-anton-korinek/","name":"The Economist Breaking Ranks to Warn of AI’s Transformative Power"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Job Interviews with a Robot: Why A.I. is Not Ready to Take Over the Hiring Process Yet","description":"Hilke Schellmann, author of \"The Algorithm,\" argues that AI-based tools aren't ready for use in the hiring process. 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