David Autor Is One of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. In February 2024, the MIT economist David Autor first published his most contrarian notion about generative AI--that, "if used well," it would create jobs and increase pay. It was something of an about turn for Autor, who had written for decades about why technological advances had hollowed out the middle class.