Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI and liberal democracy share the same crisis: ‘there is a tendency to escalate everything’

Daron Acemoglu argues that AI and liberal democracy are suffering from a shared crisis characterized by a tendency to escalate everything. He critiques two opposing views on AI—those who overstate its capabilities and those who dismiss it entirely as mere noise. Acemoglu suggests this inability to deliberate trade-offs is a reflection of a broader political culture losing common ground, mirroring the state of liberal democracy.