Economist Restrepo Forecasts Compute-Driven Economic Shift
Yale economist Pascual Restrepo, who joined the department in 2023, outlines research on how AI and automation reshape labor markets, including task-level substitution and a forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics paper with Daron Acemoglu on automation's effects on wages and inequality. He argues that if AI attains human-level capabilities, economic growth could become constrained by computing power rather than human labor, shifting income toward compute owners.
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