The good AI scenario is one where AI supports people in doing more valuable decision-making work—both using existing expertise more effectively and acquiring it faster—and the great challenge of the era is to build AIs that help people use expertise better and learn faster, which is hard because over-reliance leads people not to bother learning.

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David Autor

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one of the great challenges of our era is to figure out how to create tools, AIs, that support people using their expertise better and learning faster

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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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