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Ekonomiprofessorn Philippe Aghion är en av tre ekonomipristagare i år. (Teresa Suarez / AP)

Ekonomipristagaren: Ska använda pengar för AI-forskning

Philippe Aghion är märkbart upprymd över beskedet att han är en av tre tillväxtforskare som tilldelas årets ekonomipris.

– Jag kan inte hitta orden för att förklara hur jag känner mig, säger han när Kungliga vetenskapsakademien når honom på telefon under sin presskonferens.

När det gäller hur han ska använda prispengarna fokuserar fransmannen på forskningen i ett labb han driver. Där forskas bland annat om AI.

– Det är där jag kommer använda pengarna.

Aghion och medpristagaren Peter Howitt har tillsammans forskat om vad de kallar kreativ förstörelse – hur nya framsteg slår ut gammal teknik. AI kan skynda på den utvecklingen, tror Aghion.

– När vi introducerar teknik som AI blir vi mer produktiva och efterfrågan stiger, säger han och tillägger att vi, liksom under tidigare industriella revolutioner, måste se till att minska negativa konsekvenser.

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Joel Mokyr
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Joel Mokyr (born 26 July 1946) is a Dutch-born American-Israeli economic historian who has been a professor of economics and history and the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University since 1994. Since 2001, he has also been the Sackler Professorial Fellow at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University.
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Philippe Aghion
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Philippe Mario Aghion (French: [aɡjɔ̃]; born 17 August 1956) is a French economist who is a professor at the Collège de France, at INSEAD, at the London School of Economics, and at the Paris School of Economics. From 2002 to 2015, he was the Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Prior to that, he was a professor at University College London, an Official Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Peter Howitt
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Peter Wilkinson Howitt is a Canadian economist. He is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University. Howitt is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1994 and a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada since 1992. He served as president of the Canadian Economics Association in 1993–1994 and was the editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking in the period 1997–2000. For 2019 he received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics.

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Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne
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The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel and commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, is an award in the field of economic sciences administered by the Nobel Foundation, established in 1968 by Swedish central bank Sveriges Riksbank to celebrate its 300th anniversary and in memory of Alfred Nobel. Although the Prize in Economic Sciences was not one of the original five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel's will, it is considered a member of the Nobel Prize system, and is administered and referred to along with the Nobel Prizes by the Nobel Foundation. Winners of the Prize in Economic Sciences are chosen in a similar manner to and announced alongside the Nobel Prize recipients, and receive the Prize in Economic Sciences at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. The laureates of the Prize in Economic Sciences are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which also selects the laureates of the prizes in Physics and Chemistry. The Prize was first awarded in 1969 to Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen and Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes".
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