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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

Daron Acemoglu

Technology & society

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

By Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, and Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship

PublicAffairs · 2023

In their new book, Acemoglu and Johnson detail the ways that artificial intelligence and other digital technologies have mesmerized the business elite while threatening to undermine jobs and democracy. The authors decry the economic and social damage caused by excessive automation, massive data collection, and intrusive surveillance, and offer a counter vision whereby the tremendous computing advances of the past half century can become empowering and democratizing tools.

From Summer 2023 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.