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Anton Korinek

Economist, University of Virginia
Signed the letter · Academia · United States

Economist at the University of Virginia. Author of work on the macroeconomics of artificial intelligence, including 'Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment' (with Joseph Stiglitz), and of research on capital flows and financial stability. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.

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38 works in the co-authorship map · 3,522 citations across them

Sources

  1. Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment
  2. Excessive Volatility in Capital Flows: A Pigouvian Taxation Approach
  3. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source

In the network

12 co-authors on the map · PageRank #13 of 400 · bridge #8 of 400 · 1 step from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: AI safety and governance.

Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; what these numbers mean. See Anton Korinek on the map

Documented positions

Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? agrees

Works on scenarios where AI automating research produces explosive growth; treats large productivity effects as a live possibility to prepare for.

Evidence

  1. When Does Automating AI Research Produce Explosive Growth? Feedback Loops in Innovation Networks
  2. A Research Agenda for the Economics of Transformative AI

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Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? leans agree

His analysis of AI's implications for income distribution takes significant displacement and wage pressure seriously.

Evidence

  1. Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment

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Will AI widen inequality? agrees

A core theme of his research: without policy, advanced AI concentrates income and worsens distribution, in advanced and developing economies.

Evidence

  1. Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment
  2. Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development
  3. The Future of Inequality

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Should governments act on AI now? agrees

Argues society should actively steer technological progress rather than accept its default direction.

Evidence

  1. Steering Technological Progress
  2. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter urging policymakers to prepare for AI's economic impact” — source

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How fast will the impact arrive? leans agree

Studies transformative AI timelines seriously enough to model explosive-growth feedback loops and urges preparing now.

Evidence

  1. When Does Automating AI Research Produce Explosive Growth? Feedback Loops in Innovation Networks
  2. A Research Agenda for the Economics of Transformative AI

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Selected work

Writes with

Joseph Stiglitz (7), Erik Brynjolfsson (3), Olivier Jeanne (3), Ajay Agrawal (2), Basil Halperin (1), Cullen O’Keefe (1), Eric Horvitz (1), Gillian Hadfield (1), Lee Lockwood (1), Miles Brundage (1), Shahar Avin (1), Thomas Houlden (1)

Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (12 of 12 shown).

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