Smith College
Professor of Economics
University of Chicago
Doctorate in Economics
Stanford Law School
Juris Doctor
Artificial intelligence & economics
AI and the
human future.
I write about superintelligence, the future of work, and whether humanity will retain control of its future.
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No Humans
Need Apply
Why AI could make human labor obsolete.
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Ideas & arguments
Selected AI writing
Precedents for the Unprecedented
Historical analogies for thirteen artificial superintelligence risks.
Adam Smith Meets AI Doomers
How competition could drive us toward an AI catastrophe, even if markets usually serve us well.
Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer
Could a superintelligence be simulating us to discover what kinds of AI civilizations create?
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An economist
looking ahead.
My work brings economics and game theory to questions about artificial intelligence and humanity’s future.