More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates and representatives from major AI labs, signed a statement urging governments and institutions to prepare for AI-driven economic disruption. The warning says the transformation could be larger than the Industrial Revolution but unfold much faster.
The statement does not lay out a specific policy package, and current studies have not yet found broad labor-market effects from AI. Still, the coordinated warning shows how the debate is shifting from whether AI will affect work to how quickly public systems can adapt if displacement accelerates.