Benjamin Jones
Benjamin Jones is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at IFP and the Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Strategy at Northwestern University. An economist by training, Professor Jones studies the sources of economic growth in advanced economies, with an emphasis on innovation, entrepreneurship, and scientific progress. A former Rhodes Scholar, Professor Jones served in 2010-2011 as the Senior Economist for Macroeconomics for the White House Council of Economic Advisers and earlier served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
How AI Could Benefit the Workers it Displaces
AI is already taking jobs, but that is only one facet of its complex economic effects. Price dynamics and bottlenecks indicate that automation could be good news for workers — but only if it vastly outperforms them.