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Opinion: The writers’ strike is partly about AI. They’re right to worry

What will happen to writers in the age of generative AI? This is one of the questions which motivates the ongoing “writers’ strike” of the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

Blueprint affiliate and Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu writes, together with MIT Sloan Professor Simon Johnson, about how we can plan for and appropriately regulate the trajectory of new technologies like AI. These themes are in conjunction with their new book, Power and Progress.

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