Jason Abaluck

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Professor of economics at Yale School of Management whose research spans public finance, behavioral economics, health economics, and industrial organization.

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DI has documented statements by Jason Abaluck on Artificial Intelligence. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Jason Abaluck

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Jason Abaluck

Role at the time: Personal public post by Jason Abaluck; not established as an institutional statement.

Mixed or conditional

Statement summary

Abaluck offers a conditional defense of capabilities research at OpenAI or Anthropic: working inside a dangerous program could save lives and create influence over its direction. He says researchers must exercise exceptional caution, reassess tradeoffs continually, and have an exit strategy.

“It's not obviously wrong!”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Jason Abaluck on Coxon’s warning and the frontier AI safety debate · Jason Abaluck
Why we used this label

Explicitly conditional defense of continued capabilities research, requiring caution, reassessment and an exit strategy.

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