{"id":289094,"date":"2026-07-13T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/tech-leaders-economists-call-for-ai-guardrails-to-protect-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:50:10","slug":"tech-leaders-economists-call-for-ai-guardrails-to-protect-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/tech-leaders-economists-call-for-ai-guardrails-to-protect-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Leaders, Economists Call for AI Guardrails to Protect Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech Leaders, Economists Call for AI Guardrails to Protect Workers<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/tech-leaders-economists-want-ai-guardrails-protect-workers\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-13 16:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence is transforming the economy, and now is the time to ensure that the technology benefits society, according to a statement signed by more than 200 economists and AI researchers.<\/p>\n

Among the signers of the statement are 16 Nobel Laureates, the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, which is hosting the online statement, said in a Monday (July 13) press release.<\/p>\n

Other signers, according to the page on which the statement is posted, include former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; Greylock Partner and LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman; Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs Executive Chairman Yann LeCun; Khosla Ventures Founder Vinod Khosla; 10 people affiliated with Anthropic; and six affiliated with OpenAI.<\/p>\n

The statement reads as follows:<\/p>\n

\u201cAI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEconomists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement was organized by four economists: Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab; Ajay Agrawal, a professor at the University of Toronto\u2019s Rotman School of Management; Anton Korinek, a professor at the University of Virginia, currently on leave at Anthropic; and Tom Cunningham, a researcher at METR, according to the press release.<\/p>\n

Brynjolfsson said in the press release: \u201cWe must act now to guide AI to complement humans rather than simply imitate them\u2014and to generate prosperity for the many, not just the few.\u201d<\/p>\n

Agrawal said in the release: \u201cWhether rapidly…<\/p>\n

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