Signed The AI Warning. Your Dashboard Still Isn't Moving

Nearly 2,000 AI experts have signed a short Stanford Digital Economy Lab statement titled “We Must Act Now,” released on July 13. Directed by Erik Brynjolfsson, and organized with Ajay Agrawal, Anton Korinek and Tom Cunningham, the statement warns that AI could become radically more powerful within a decade, creating economic change on a timeline faster than the Industrial Revolution. It urges organizations to build incentives and institutions so AI complements people rather than imitates them. Brynjolfsson argues many companies misread AI’s impact by focusing on easy-to-measure cost cuts instead of harder-to-quantify consumer surplus and human augmentation.