Doomsday or Utopia?: The Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Will AI take your job? Economist David K. Levine says no and explains why.

Headlines warn that artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs, hand control of the economy to a few tech billionaires, and rot our brains or lead to untold prosperity. So, which is it? Doomsday or Utopia? tests those predictions against what economics and the history of technology actually show.

David K. Levine, an MIT-trained economist who has studied game theory and innovation for decades and has written software ...