David Autor on AI
2 quotes from David Autor on the wall, 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include NOEMA.
AGI has not failed us, we have failed ourselves
David Autor, MIT economist, in a NOEMA essay (September 2026) responding to AI visionaries' predictions that AGI will outperform humans at most economically valuable work.
The risk is the devaluation of expertise
David Autor, MIT labor economist, writing in NOEMA (September 2026), argued that AI's real danger to labor markets is not job loss but eroding the value of human expertise.