“We are driving in the fog, and it is extraordinarily difficult to anticipate what will happen next.”
That alarmed voice is coming straight from the top of the economics profession. That’s Anton Korinek, a University of Virginia economics professor and one of the organizers of a statement signed this week by over 200 economists—including 16 Nobel laureates and the chief economists of OpenAI and Anthropic—admitting, in effect, that the profession is flying blind on AI.
