Asian Impact 39: ADB Distinguished Speakers Program - Daron Acemoglu
Channel: Asian Development Bank
Date: 2022-01-25

Is the world today afflicted with excessive automation? In this lecture, Professor Daron Acemoglu will discuss automation and its consequences, including the potential economic, political, and social costs of the current path of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies. By displacing the developing countries’ most valuable resource—labor—with capital and algorithms, the current trajectory of technology adoption may be inappropriate for the needs of the emerging world. Led by Vice President Bambang Susantono, a panel of ADB senior researchers will join Professor Acemoglu to discuss how ADB can help its developing members to redirect technology and limit its damaging consequences for their workers and citizens.

0:00 - Welcome and introductions by VP Bambang Susantono
3:57 - Lecture by Distinguished Speaker Prof Daron Acemoglu
46:02 - Introduction of Panelists
47:09 - Panelist Albert Park
1:02:49 - Panelist Cyn-Young Park
1:15:12 - Panel discussions and audience questions
1: 26:32 - Closing and promotion of next AIW