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Pascual Restrepo

Economist; research on automation and labor markets
Signed the letter · Academia · United States

Economist. Author, with Daron Acemoglu, of work on automation and labor markets, including 'Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets', 'The Race between Man and Machine', and 'Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor', and of 'Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies'. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.

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34 works in the co-authorship map · 15,434 citations across them

Sources

  1. Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
  2. Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
  3. Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies
  4. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source

In the network

9 co-authors on the map · PageRank #11 of 400 · bridge #20 of 400 · 2 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Automation, firms and productivity.

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

Documented positions

Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? leans disagree

Co-authored work argues that automation-biased technological change has gone with lower productivity growth, and that AI's gains depend on creating new tasks.

Evidence

  1. “Recent technological change has been biased towards automation, with insufficient focus on creating new tasks where labour can be productively employed. The consequences of this choice have been stagnating labour demand, declining labour share in national income, rising inequality and lowering productivity growth.” — source

Why researchers disagree on this · Who else says what

Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? it's complicated

Automation displaces labor while new tasks reinstate it; he warns the current path of AI leans toward displacement ('the wrong kind of AI').

Evidence

  1. The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment
  2. The wrong kind of AI? Artificial intelligence and the future of labour demand

Why researchers disagree on this · Who else says what

Will AI widen inequality? agrees

His work attributes a large share of rising US wage inequality to automation displacing routine task workers.

Evidence

  1. The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment
  2. Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work

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Should governments act on AI now? leans agree

Argues the direction of AI research is a social choice that policy should influence.

Evidence

  1. The wrong kind of AI? Artificial intelligence and the future of labour demand
  2. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter urging policymakers to prepare for AI's economic impact” — source

Why researchers disagree on this · Who else says what

How fast will the impact arrive? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Selected work

Writes with

Daron Acemoglu (27), David Autor (2), Emin Dinlersoz (2), Lucia Foster (2), Nathan Goldschlag (2), Nikolas Zolas (2), Zachary Kroff (2), Benjamin Moll (1), James A. Robinson (1)

Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (9 of 9 shown).

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