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Book review explores how AI interacts with power and inequality, suggesting frameworks for broader benefit.
David Autor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER reviews “The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)” by Maximilian Kasy. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Presents a framework for understanding how artificial intelligence (AI) will proceed in a society that is shaped by power and inequality, focusing on the limits of AI and how it can be made to work for all people.”
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