AGI Strategies

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Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee

MIT economist; 2019 Nobel laureate

MIT development economist and 2019 Nobel laureate. With Esther Duflo has written on AI's effect on global development. Skeptical of AI-as-development-shortcut framings.

current Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT
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Strategy positions

AI skepticmixed

AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and current

Argues AI does not solve underlying development problems and can replicate them. Skeptical of AI-shortcut framings.

AI cannot substitute for institutions. The development problems that institutions address remain.
articleJ-PAL· Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab· 2024· loose paraphrase

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Abhijit Banerjee's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

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    Ada Lovelace

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    First programmer; analytical engine theorist (1815–1852)

  • Aidan Gomez

    Aidan Gomez

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    CEO of Cohere; 'Attention Is All You Need' co-author

  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay

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    Object-oriented programming and personal computing pioneer

  • Alex Hanna

    Alex Hanna

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    Director of Research at DAIR; Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

  • Andriy Burkov

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    ML engineer; 'The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book' author

  • Andy Clark

    Andy Clark

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    Sussex philosopher; extended mind theorist

Record last updated 2026-04-25.