daron acemoglu, in massachusetts, welcome to hardtalk. massachusetts, welcome to hardtalk hardtalk. thank you, it s a deli . ht hardtalk. thank you, it s a delight to hardtalk. thank you, it s a delight to be hardtalk. thank you, it s a delight to be on hardtalk. thank you, it s a delight to be on the - hardtalk. thank you, it s a - delight to be on the programme. a great pleasure to have you here you have just written a book power and progress which goes through the impacts of some of the great technological shift in human history over the past millennium. would you say that artificial intelligence, the supremacy of the algorithm, represents one of those transformational moment for humankind? i’m transformational moment for humankind? transformational moment for humankind? ., , ., humankind? i m not sure that it does but there humankind? i m not sure that it does but there is humankind? i m not sure that it does but there is a humankind? i m not sure that it
were better for humanity and channelled towards things that were betterfor humanity and i think we can recreate that. thtre think we can recreate that. are ou think we can recreate that. are you somebody think we can recreate that. are you somebody who, like elon musk, actually, not so long ago, just a few months ago, has begun to worry that al may take us to a place where we are no longer masters of the machine but the machines may become masters of us? how far do you go down the doomsday track? trio. go down the doomsday track? no, i m not worried go down the doomsday track? idrr, i m not worried about that. i think the current architecture of ai is unlikely to create anything like the human mind andi anything like the human mind and i also worry that some of the discussion of existential risk really takes our attention off the more mundane and daily users of ai and digital technologies that are inequality generating, but a centralising information, but are boosting the inequitie