Your belief about whether AI turns out well is not really a belief about AI but about what humanity will do with the opportunity; the future is a design exercise, not a forecasting exercise, so breaking our way depends on making good collective choices—which is feasible but extremely hard.

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David Autor

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the future is... not a forecasting exercise, it's a design exercise

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A Threat Bigger than China | MIT Economist David AutorReid Hoffman
Created: 6/18/2026, 2:32:24 PM

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