Anton Korinek

@akorinek

Researches the Economics of Transformative AI Professor of Economics @UVAEcon & @DardenMBA Visiting Fellow @Brookings Research Associate @nberpubs and @cepr_org

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Joined July 2009

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Anton Korinek
@akorinek
Sep 9
📄 My first working paper at Anthropic, with the @ChadJonesEcon, @SzymonSacher, Tess Cotter & @PeterMcCrory : "Economic Scenarios for Transformative AI" How could AI reshape growth, wages and jobs by 2030? A framework to compare the possibilities 🧵
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Anton Korinek
@akorinek
Jul 14
Steam, electricity, and computers gave societies decades to adapt. AI may give us only a few years. That's why I co-organized this statement with @erikbryn, @professor_ajay, and @testingham — now signed by 200+ economists & AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates👇
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Anton Korinek
@akorinek
May 26
1/🆕 My new @PIIE research with Patrick McKelvey on 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 finds the AI sector in the US 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮,𝟬𝟬𝟬%+/𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 in quality-adjusted terms—yet it's nearly invisible in GDP. We can't let this measurement gap become a policy gap!🧵
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Anton Korinek
@akorinek
May 4
1/🆕 New NBER paper: 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵? Under empirically grounded calibrations, a singularity could arrive within just a few years of automating AI research. 🧵 📄 nber.org/papers/w35155
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Anton Korinek
@akorinek
Feb 11
Josh @Tyrangiel wrote an excellent cover story @TheAtlantic on how AI will affect the labor market. 🤖𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵📉 I appreciate his candid reporting and am honored to be featured alongside @davidautor @reidhoffman @GinaRaimondo and others!
Josh
@Tyrangiel
Feb 10
What AI will do to work is one of the most argued-over questions in public life—and one of the most poorly framed. theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/… My Atlantic cover story: AI and the Future of Work
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