More Than 200 Economists and AI Researchers Urge Action to Steer AI Toward Human-Friendly Ends

More than 200 leading economists and artificial-intelligence researchers issued a joint statement warning that AI could become "radically more powerful" over the next decade and calling for immediate research and policy action to steer the technology toward outcomes that benefit society. The signatories, who include 16 Nobel laureates, argue that AI may drive an economic transformation greater than the Industrial Revolution but compressed into a vastly shorter span of time, according to a report published on July 13, 2026.