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Furman, “Should We Be Reassured If Automation in the Future Looks Like Automation in the Past?” (2019-05) bears on M03. Furman attributes AI's small macroeconomic impact to the newness of recent advances and notes that inventions like electricity added productivity in successive waves. Copy claim link
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Date 2019-05 · publication Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element Does not call AI a general-purpose technology or attribute the lag to complementary investment. Tier Tier 1. Chapter of the NBER Economics of AI volume (core venue). Scope and limits Describes a lag between recent advances and macro impact.
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Should We Be Reassured If Automation in the Future Looks Like Automation in the Past? ↗ NBER volume chapter · 2019-05
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Source excerpt “However, while AI research has been underway for decades, recent advances are still very new, and, as a result, AI has not had a large macroeconomic impact, at least not yet.” Location in source pdf page 5; 12.1 The Benefit of More Artificial Intelligence (printed p. 320)
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Source details and check notes Authors Jason Furman Version Full text. Current copy retrieved directly on 2026-10-09; no archive capture (Wayback unreachable), so earlier bytes are not authenticated. SHA-256 a43ecf48d5ec6131dfc002acab3d7df32dffb90bb9b7e41c30c470e14e6e68f6. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-09 Language English (en) Attribution Jason Furman, “Should We Be Reassured If Automation in the Future Looks Like Automation in the Past?”, NBER volume chapter, 2019-05. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage M03-09 (research/economics-mainstream). The quotation (31 words) matched the retrieved current copy (SHA-256 a43ecf48d5ec6131dfc002acab3d7df32dffb90bb9b7e41c30c470e14e6e68f6) in the pack's verification. Re-checked at admission on 2026-10-14 against a copy retrieved that day. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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