Real Alpha has cut 2 moments of Daron Acemoğlu (Institute Professor, MIT) talking, from an interview on Silicon Valley Girl published Oct 6, 2026.
What Daron Acemoğlu said
The money in AI is in data and applications, not models
“I really don't see how you're going to make trillions of dollars from foundation models because of potential bottlenecks, either in the development of the models or in their diffusion.”
Daron Acemoğlu40:42 Making workers 5% more productive beats automating 5% of jobs
“imagine you have 100 employees. And I tell you, you can automate 5% of those jobs and reduce the cost by half in those 5”
Daron Acemoğlu26:17
The episode
Silicon Valley GirlNobel Economist: Where He Sees the Real Money in AI
Daron Acemoğlu · Economist, MIT
40:08of 44:02 · Oct 6
